DTS Degree Apprentice - Software Engineering Review

Item: DTS Degree Apprentice - Software Engineering at JLR
Rating: 3
Author: Anonymous

at JLR

Degree Apprenticeship

Software Engineering

Gaydon

Review Submitted: March 2024

Overall Rating

3 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

3/5 - Overview of Role

3/5 - Skills Development

2.6/5 - Structure and Support

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

3/5

Mixture of dealing with customer support tickets and working on internal DevOps projects

To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

3/5

I'm generally quite happy but feel that the team I'm in isn't particularly suited for software engineering apprentices. I would prefer to be in a more development focused team in order to have more career progression opportunities

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

3/5

Have learned about agile and expanded on programming skills

Structure and Support

How well organised/structured is your programme?

2/5

WMG are pretty poorly organised leading to confusion around timetables, assessments etc. The work side very much depends on your team, if your manager puts the work in to support you then you'll be fine but if not you may find yourself twiddling your thumbs waiting for things to do. Early carers team are too hands off and don't offer support without explicitly asking for it.

How much support do you receive from your employer?

2/5

Again, this depends on the team. I have good mentors in my team so I'm lucky but some people really struggle to get support or communication from their team. The dedicated early careers team are generally pretty bad at reaching out and supporting apprentices unless you explicitly seek them out.

How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

2/5

Depends on the lecturer. Some are very competent and supportive so you feel confident you'll do well in the assessments. Some modules are quite poorly structured however so you'll end up unsure of what to do, when it's due etc.

How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

3/5

I have been able to apply a decent amount of classroom knowledge to my workplace.

Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

4/5

There are worl networks like the gender equality network & pride network. There is also an early careers community that organised events outside of work but I don't know of many apprentices that are part of it.