I think people need to be sensible, realistic and risk aware, before they consider these type of programmes.
You are paying for a course of integrated flight training and that is expensive at around £80,000.
There can be no guarantee of a job, because those jobs are not in the gift of the training provider. They are possible placements offered in conjunction with independent commercial airlines, whose own requirements are subject to change depending on their own finances and trading markets.
This is a full time training programme of around 18 months duration. It is not a correspondence course, or a flexible part time programme. That is one aspect of what makes the programme attractive to its partner airline customers. For somebody considering embarking on such a programme, they will need to have all of their finances in order to cover the duration of the course, including living costs.
The prospect of a placement upon completion, is based on the assumed state of the market 18 months further down the road. That is an unknown forecast that can be viewed with whatever degree of optimism or pessimism the buyer, seller, and any third party buyers feel at any given moment in time.
This programme has a track record of placing cadets with "partner airlines". Given that this is a major feature of this programme, it is presumably very much in the interest of the company to work to ensure that remains successful. Without this competitive advantage, it would simply be another integrated training provider. Despite this, it cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear. If there are no placements to be had, then it must (and has) look for whatever the market has to offer. In the last few years that has centred around one large "lo-cost" airline. That airline has dictated it's own terms, and that has often involved extra costs for the successful placements.
In another 18 months this may be the norm. Things may be better, or they may be worse. Who knows?
Where these programmes do have an advantage, is that airlines nearly always use similar programmes for their cadet entry opportunities. That is likely to be increasingly so, as and when there is an acceleration in the marketplace. Airlines do not generally regard a CPL/IR and 200 hours as meeting even the minimum requirements for direct recruitment. At this level of flying experience, these programmes are pretty much the only game in town for those who want a serious chance at this level. However they come with no guarantees, and you need to be able to afford them.
In my opinion, you need the finances in place. You need to understand that there may be a long period of waiting at the completion of the course. You need to be able to cover these realities and always have a fall back plan.
If you cannot sensibly satisfy these conditions, then you should look at different strategies and routes in commercial flying, if that remains a realistic ambition.