DTS Degree apprentice Review
at IBM
Degree Apprenticeship
Software Engineering
Hursley
Review Submitted: April 2026
Overall Rating
4.5 /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!
5/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
4.2/5
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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:
5/5
my role involved a variety of different day to day duties, as I had a variety of roles throughout my apprenticeship, trying things such as UI designing, testing and software development. on the whole my role involved testing new features that developers create to ensure that they work as required.
To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
5/5
I thouroughly enjoyed my degree apprenticeship, I maintain that it was one of the best decisions I've ever made, excepting the job. one of the highlights for me was the eagerness, long serving IBMers have for mentoring us as early professonials, I have learned so much from just sitting next to senior professonals and asking them questions and shadowing them.
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
5/5
I have learn so many skills throughout my apprenticeship, most notibly my teamworking skills, working in a large variety of diffrent teams. I have also developed my software testing skills, going from a novice to an experianced tester, now having finished my apprenticeship I am looking at branching out into cloud infastructure, and am currently developing my infastructure skills.
Structure and Support
How well organised/structured is your programme?
5/5
my degree apprenticeship was extremely well organised, from IBM's side, with dedicated University days and expectations setout clearly by my manager, enabling me to finish all required university and other apprenticeship commitments in good time.
How much support do you receive from your employer?
5/5
I recived an enorumus amount of support from IBM to help me complete my apprentiship, including dedicated extra study days to help me complete my synoptic project, these were outside of the extra days my project allowed me to take towards completing my apprenticeship, I also had an enourmus ammount of support from my collegues when completing my EPA mapping document.
How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
3/5
How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
3/5
Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
5/5
yes, there are mutiple opertunities for social, and professonal networking events
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
Yes
Why?
it is an absolutly amazing, as IBM enables you to try lots of diffrent roles, and also try to help match you with the best role for you. IBM also enable you to gain a mutilude of diffrent qaulifications through fully funded training courses
What tips or advice would you give to others applying to IBM?
be curious, eager to learn and passionate
