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Very unorganized. I purchased the service for $7000. Service include: a website where you record and practice answering interview questions so you can send it to your career coach for review, 10 1 hour coaching sessions from a list of many career coaches (some coaches are unresponsive), a list of job opportunities where you can send your application. One good thing about this service is the coaches are very knowledgeable, however, when you only get 10 1 hour sessions you only get to pick one career coach or else you'll waste your session on introduction. Apart from the knowledgeable coaches where you don't get enough of, everything else is a complete waste of money. Overall the service is a complete scam and waste of money.

Applied to multiple jobs that sounded interesting through LinkedIn - employee reached out and scheduled a call with Femi to go over the opportunities. He never showed up to my meeting or responded to my follow up request to reschedule. Followed up again a few days later and no response. Very unprofessional.

Scam company. I am an international business advisor and executive coach, and I work with Fortune 100 companies. I love to work with people and have found that my versatile experience truly brings empowerment to people. I work with many organizations, and I had liked Parabolic’s mission to help people who need a job, help with their careers, and need to change their lives from a professional angle. So, I was happy to support its mission, but I don’t work for free. I had noticed the company had a mess; they put coaches who apply online on their system for taxes without even interviewing them, so I walked away. I talked with Curtis and asked him directly, “Is the company stable, functioning properly, with paying clients, and in a position to hire and pay coaches?” And he said yes, that the company had been in “business” for years. Nothing happened for a while, but one day, Jackie, the Head of Product, reached out and said the company had gone through some adjustments and was back organized, invited me for a call, made me an offer, and immediately got me a very nice client, and I was happy to support him. Jackie reassured me she was on top of things and would organize the issues with communication, paperwork, systems, etc. Jackie was very communicative, with weekly emails, until she disappeared, along with everybody else. She left many people hanging, many coaches who had invested months with weekly sessions and coaching about ten people and had not gotten paid for that time. I kept trying to contact support, and Femi the founder but he never responded to emails. I stopped coaching my client. They paid a premium and put all of their hopes into this program to get a job. He kept also emailing to get an answer or refund, and he was getting his emails bounced. This happened to a lot of people. I reached out to some of the coaches who had been featured on the homepage, and some say they withdrew from working with Parabolic because they struggled to get paid; some didn’t even know their faces and names were being used on the homepage so they had to ask their lawyers to draw a letter to remove them. Parabolic was using high-profile people on their site without their knowledge to claim success. Finally, I got an email from Femi without a care in the world that said “he couldn’t pay,” IF people would get paid, it would take a year. Palmer the founder never apologized, never bothered to pick up the phone, or tried to work on an arrangement. I tried emailing, texting, and calling, and he stood in his place, saying he had done nothing wrong. He claimed he would take care of payments but didn’t even bother. I gave him plenty of chances, but he never bothered to make it right. I told him he was leaving me with no choice but to sue him, and he said, “sue me.” Here is the reason why I am taking the time to write this. Some people are not worth our time, and Femi is not one of them, but thankfully, I am in a position to recover from this, and my experience with my client was hopefully a valuable “mentoring” experience to help him in his career but is crucial for me to share this for a couple of reasons: 1. My experience is the tip of the iceberg; Femi continues trying to get clients from Premium packages but has no Coaches to back them up, leaving many people without their paychecks. He has let a lot of people down. When this happens, it is not because of poor management but because of a lack of scruples. He had time to correct the situation, but he took the money with greed and didn’t pay people. Femi is not trustworthy, and it is beyond risky to invest in him. 2. Many people and professionally desperate people are under the mirage that this company can help them get a job to have stability and build a future. Many are making a high effort and sacrifices to invest in Parabolic, hoping this helps and changes their situation. They are left hanging, struggling to get a response or their money back. Many of these clients are from overseas and are hoping to make it in America, and they think that by hiring this American company, they’ll have a way in. 3. If I stay silent, I am part of it. This is my most significant reason for speaking up. I have wasted a lot of time, but if I am preventing people from a disappointing experience, financial loss, and feeling used to speaking up, I’ve done my part. It’s a horrible feeling to be scammed by cowards. I am a startup advisor, and I know that companies create images of success to lure people, but not everything that shines is gold. Entrepreneurship, tech startups, and supporting people to succeed are my world, so I can’t walk away quietly. I can’t allow people without scruples to ruin the trust and credibility of startups. Otherwise, people won’t give startups a chance. I have all my emails to back this up.

Parabolic is a racist company. They discriminate against white people.

Parabolic Career has helped me with resume revisions, and job application submissions, and made it easier for me to navigate my job search. I no longer spend hundreds of hours applying for job and I'm notified of every submission, every interview, and each resume update on the platform.

I signed up with Femi’s platform after having a couple of conversations with him. He is an impressive man with a viable business model. I was more interested in paying Femi to help me find a role than I was interested in the Parabolic platform. Soon after signing up with Parabolic, it seemed that Femi was understaffed. But although his company has been weathering the volatile market lately (as the rest of the economy has), Femi has done right by his clients. From my experience he is a legit entrepreneur with integrity.

The Parabolic staff is very professional and dialed into staffing roles not posted elsewhere.

As a mentor for Parabolic, I really enjoy meeting prospective financial professionals. I have been impressed by the quality of people interested in the platform that want to move into banking. It is indeed a very enjoyable experience!

I was a coach for Parabolic and mentored a few clients from China. The students were highly motivated and receptive to my feedback, I went over interview questions in the quantitative data analysis field and job search strategy. It was fully remote and convenient from the perspective of a coach and it felt good giving advice to students and getting compensated for it

AJ got me various interviews at small and big banks. One interview led to a job. I recommend working with AJ. I went to a pretty average school but passionate in finance, I had trouble getting interviews at companies wanted. I wanted to break into wall street firms but it was difficult for me to. I looked at organizations that could achieve this goal, but Parabolic stood out. There were doubts given I had not used it, I worked with coach AJ and a few coaches which helped me with different interviews and technical interviews. Moreover they helped me get confidence in myself which helped me proceed into later rounds. Within a few months I got a few final rounds and within 3 months I got 2 offers. Great experience, nice people and I reccommend.

As someone who had 15 years of industry experience, I doubted I would need any coaching or mentorship. After being told over and over that I was “overqualified”, I decided to go on a whim and try out Parabolic. I was very pleasantly surprised. I was able to work with over 6 great coaches across their vast network. They helped me with my resume, interviews, but also referred me to the corporation I finally landed a Senior VP role at. As a startup, always some growing pains here and there. Overall, great investment and great people

Great service and very happy I used it! I needed help breaking into data analysis and standing out from others in my masters program. As an international student, it was especially competitive. I needed to be at the top of my game in order to get selected. Parabolic’s personalized approach helped me substantially and I got many more interviews with their help. I am very thankful for their hard work and help.

I really needed a job so I could stay in the U.S. as I am an international student. Parabolic was super compassionate and helpful for me in the search. I was not able to get interviews prior to Parabolic but Parabolic used their many connections throughout the U.S. in the financial services industry to help me land an entry level Financial Analyst role. They also helped negotiate my salary and got me $10,000 higher than I would have myself! Evan and Rohan have been the most useful coaches for me, definitely request them if interested

Best firm to work with if you are trying to break into the hedge fund space. I used Parabolic to help me with technical interviews for buy side roles, as I was not good at them. I was fine with the behavioral, but when it came to modeling or valuation questions, I got stuck and stumbled. Mark was a great coach and helped me a lot. I got a role at a small hedge fund after 3 months of working with Parabolic!

I was looking for a job in marketing in New York City after graduation. With tech layoffs happening, it was a tough environment. Parabolic opened up their network to me and helped me with interview. Bethany and Mark were great mentors for me and guided me in my path. I found a job within 2 months of using them

I admit I had my reservations at first about signing up to a course with the Parabolic as I have never done or needed to do anything like this previously. However certain circumstances regarding a previous role, had made me lose my way. Once on boarded I was assigned Proneet as my coach. Proneet has been truly exceptional, not only has he helped with my networking and LinkedIn but helped me gain my confidence and self-esteem. My experience of the process has been amazing and I couldn't recommend the course higher.

I did my interview prep with Josh. He was knowledgeable, punctual, and so professional. I can’t recommend him more, and I never write reviews! He helped me land jobs at top financial institutions! I highly recommend the company and please ask for Josh to be your trainer.

I've been a coach with Parabolic for a few months now. In general the process has been smooth. I've been matched with several smart and interesting clients, and Parabolic has provided me with helpful resources to help them succeed. One of the best things about the job is building relationships with so many talented finance professionals.

No stars! Complete scam. I was hired as a coach in an oddly quick process and after completing several sessions, I was nnot paid. They are preying on the desperation of students with H-1B Visas and charging outlandish fees. All of my students have complained to me. Stay away!

Stay away! I applied to work as a coach in mid-February and was accepted as a coach soon after without an interview. I received a generic email and was asked to use Airtable to accept clients and schedule coaching sessions. In addition, Ari (Chief Revenue Officer/Growth Product) introduced me to one client via email as well. However, I was very confused as the firm did not do an onboarding and the entire process was unclear, including the payout expectations. I expressed some concerns and Ari continued to push me to schedule coaching sessions, rather than understand and address my questions and concerns. I decided to do some research and understand this firm better. I found some reviews on TrustPilot, but these are clearly fake; there is one from the current CEO (Varun Sharat), one from a current employee (Sam Cripps), and a third one that's likely an employee or a friend (Kelly Garren) - great job not making these obvious. If you notice, almost every user review on TrustPilot has no other reviews beyond Parabloic and this is a clear flag. In response to my Google review, Kelly Garren left a 5 star review on March 13. I found some forum posts on WallStreetOasis and Fishbowl that are worth reading as well: 1) wallstreetoasis (forum/job-search/parabolic-usa-career-coaching-and-staffing-several-red-flags) 2) wallstreetoasis (orum/job-search/headhunter-review-parabolic-usacarrerllc-ie-career-coach-service) 3) fishbowlapp (post/is-parabolic-career-worth-the-money-looks-like-a-scam-coaching-service) To recap, 1) it appears that Parabolic accepts coaches without a formal interview or process, 2) there is no onboarding for coaches, 3) the online reviews appear to be fake, and 4) there are other red flags from their clients and previous employees on forums. Good luck if you do decide to work with Parabolic.