Apprentice DevOps Software Engineer Review

I worked in a team with other software engineers responsible for doing full stack we app development for internal operational support systems (OSS). This involved all stages of requirement gathering, design, development, testing, deployment and maintaining of applications. Day to day I got involved with any and all work across the stages described above, both pairing with other devs and solo work.

The programme was advertised as a rotational scheme where we'd do an initial year in a team and then rotate around different areas of the business every 6 months. Unfortnately after 18 months they cancelled this scheme leaving everyone uncertain of what was happening. Luckily we got to choose where we'd like to stay for the remainder. Otherwise from a work perspective everything was organised well.
The organisation at university was terrible. The communication was little to non-existent regarding when our modules were being taught, when breaks were and when assignments were due. This was particularly problematic when we had to schedule this into our work commitments. The only way to get information was to keep asking over and over to lecturers who might eventually give an answer.

Everyone who I worked with was extremely supportive and would always be available to give support, feedback and just be a help in general. Even some higher-ups took the time to chat with us and give advice.

Similarly to previous answers the university had several issues relating to teaching and overall support. These issues added un-needed additional stress to the situations. In additional to the lack of communication addressed previously there were several issue relating to modules being incorrectly marked or one instance where a lecturer had to be fired after teaching us an entire 3 month module incorrectly for us only to be given a 6 week extension to self-teach the entire module correctly and do an assignment.

Whilst the degree itself is relevant to my job role, the vast majority of content that was taught was either too basic, outdated or just completely wrong. For those coming in with no prior dev experience I think it would have provided a good foundation but for myself with some prior academic experience it was not enough. I often found myself having to stop myself when writing assignments as they wanted it to be done in the incorrect way they taught rather than the right way that I'd learnt on the job.

Yes

BT itself is a good place to work. From my experience, everyone is open to help when you have problems and the seniors encourage learning and professional development at all opportunities.