Rating
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
- 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
- 4. How valued do you feel by Firebrand?
- 5. How well organised/structured is your programme?
- 6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?
- 6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?
- 7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?
- 8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?
- 9. Would you recommend Firebrand to a friend?
- 9b. Why?
- 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Firebrand?
My job title is software engineer apprentice. Pretty much all I do all day is revise. My internal day to day interactions are with colleagues, and the occasional meeting. I have no external interactions, other than with my assessor, who comes once a quarter.
All I do all day is learn new skills. From a textbook.
it is to no extent.
oh blimey, not at all
well, I was put on a selection of courses that my assessor was completely unaware of. The only thing he knew about these courses was the name of them. he had no idea of the required skills or knowledge needed to go on these courses.
A little bit.
As much as I ask for.
If I wasn't living at home, I would have to live on the street and eat out of trash cans
Not that I am aware of.
No
it's god-awful.
don't go to firebrand. They have no idea how to run apprenticeships, and not one single person on my C# course passed the Microsoft exam. Despite the fact that some of the people on the course had been employed as software engineers for 5+ years.
Details
Higher Level Apprenticeship
Information Technology
West Midlands
August 2015