Apprentice Review

I'm a DT Degree Apprentice, so in general you work with data or code. However the course at E.ON works on 6 month placements- so every 6 months you go to another part of the business, this means while you'll normally always be doing something to do with data or coding- a part of your job is constantly changing- so for example so far I have done architecture and worked with our sustainability team. You get to pick where you go as most places are very happy to have your help so you can do a lot of different things. Also this is more random and barely happens but you sometimes do events, like careers fairs. The last part of the role again is more random- but all of us DT apprentices have a team that handles random projects occasionally.

Pretty well organised- as said earlier the course is structured in 6 month blocks- you are required to move on after 6 months, but I believe you could go back for a later placement if you really wanted. University currently is structured like so: 3 times a year go into university (Clifton campus, NTU) to do 2 weeks of lecturers/tutorials, then across the next 7 weeks after you have coursework, for myself the Fridays we are given to do university work is enough (so far at least)- but I have known others to need more time. This also means there are times where you have no University work, you can then use your Fridays to do your job, or to develop some skills.
However worth noting NTU is looking to change their course structure, so it may change to a more ongoing thing, where you would go like once a week or once every other week, and have smaller coursework projects.
Any complaints I would have with structure is the universities fault, and will be the same at any university.

As I said earlier in terms of development (which to me is the whole point of the course), it really good, E.ON has a pretty good learning platform with a lot of resources and video tutorials, and people in general are always willing to help from my experience. There's lots of communities to help with inclusion to.

If I'm being honest this wildly depends on your lecturer, some are really good and will respond pretty quickly to any questions, give good feedback and are just decent teachers. Some lecturers aren't as good. Though in terms of support outside of individual modules it's decent, I wouldn't say they do anything above and beyond, but I haven't felt not supported either.

The qualification is coding based (though this may change), which is a good skill to upskill in, though that said I find myself working with data more than pure code, though more complicated tasks can require you to code. There aren't many coding placements at E.ON in the UK- but this may change in the future (also you can do international placements where you would be coding all the time). Because of this the training from the qualification, while useful for your general career, may not be super useful at E.ON (could be but may not be).
Though the fields are all adjacent and normally there is crossover. I personally find learning different areas helps me with all kinds of stuff and although 6 months in have never coded- it looks like I'll be starting to utilise what I have learnt ion python a lot more.
Some lecturers at university will be useless and you will get nothing out of them- but what is useless to me might be very useful for someone else.

Yes

It's a good workplace and from my experience so far they genuinely care about their apprentices and nurturing them into being employees- they take people wanting them to turn into full time employees, I don't think E.ON is perfect, no company will be, but they are pretty good.