Apprentice Software Engineer Review
at BBC
Degree Apprenticeship
Software Engineering
Bristol
Review Submitted: March 2025
Overall Rating
4 /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!
4/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
3.4/5
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Structure and Support
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
4/5
Catching up with team members, providing in hours support, writing code, assisting with testing, releasing code, planning future work, completing work-based uni work.
To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
4/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
5/5
All the time, thrown into the deep end, but always in the best way. Getting to learn more and more every day´
Structure and Support
How well organised/structured is your programme?
4/5
All internal apprenticeship opportunities are very well organised. Communicated well and logically setup. Some external opporunities can be a bit ropey, espeically with the university
How much support do you receive from your employer?
5/5
As much or as little as needed. But the second you ask for it, it is arranged and given to you
How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
1/5
This is where is suffers, the uni are very bad at providing support, and they seem to not care about apprentices at all. Feels like an afterthought compared to regular undergrad students
How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
3/5
There are not many elements where the qualificiation and job role overlap, but that is because the qualification is all theory. I have so many opportunities in work and the qualificiation is just out of date
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
I help run the apprentice community podcast, which is open to all staff in the BBC to listen to, and provides us completely autonomy to do what we want with it. There are plenty of other opportunites that i have got incolved in also, but not on a regular basis like the podcast
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend BBC to a friend?
Yes
Why?
The support is amazing, the opportunities are never ending, a work life balance is possible, which is not common for apprenticesships, the company culture is very good in my opinion. Overall the support for apprentices is immense, and i do not want to leave at the end!
What tips or advice would you give to others applying to BBC?
Be yourself, they are looking for a person, not a set of skills as you are going there to learn. Show how passionate you are about the role, and it will shine through. You do not have to be the smartest, just the one that they most would like to work with.
