Digital Technology Solutions Software Engineer Degree Apprentice Review

Review, maintain and write code for a backend development team. Work with data processing operations as well as visualising and explain work done to those less experienced with the software/code. Communicate with our customers (other teams) to find an efficient automated solution to their problem.

The uni have issues with Aptem, the OTJ logging system. It's very difficult to log things, and unclear what we counts as OTJ/what we should log. The system also is broken and won't let us log KSBs. Coursework has been posted with the incorrect submission dates too once.

I have multiple people in my team I can reach out to for support, as well as multiple people across the business. My line manager, and team leads, are all invested in my growth and are very generous with allowing us to do university work if we need more time.

Lots! Every Friday is a study day, and, provided we don't have a lot of work and provide enough notice, my team lead is happy to allow us to use some work time for university work if needed. They also give us work that can relate to our current university projects (eg. I was given SQL related work when studying databases).

Not much, work can use rather specific coding languages (or versions of it). Some modules at university will be irrelevant until after the course (management modules, mostly) but they tend to give you a good idea of the fundamentals or logic behind concepts. I assume it gets more specific as the course goes on.

Yes

Really positive and supportive work environment, where people are willing to listen and respond to your concerns and feelings. Your training is supported, and your presence feels valued (even if you personally feel you aren't yet qualified). Managers are very eager to train the apprentices and this positive attitude shows.