Application Development Associate Review

Software Engineer Degree Apprentice On a weekly basis, you'll have university one day a week (Monday), then work from Tuesday to Friday on a project. Your project can be anything from project management to java engineer to a scrubber. Really depends on the demand in that project.

At the beginning of the course you'll do a "Java Boot Camp" for three weeks. The most intense part of the programme, following a two week learning block at your university. You'll have a lot of internal courses to take, which you get certificates for. E.g. business ethics, leadership, work conduct, etc. For those who don't know much about being a software engineer you'll definitely learn a lot, weather you like it or not is a complete different story.

Personally, Accenture is such a big business and you can tell they hire these apprentices and school leavers to make them look good. You end up feeling like another number. On your first project you're lucky to get a good role as a lot of projects would rather have someone with experience. As some projects are so busy, it's hard for you to learn new things as some managers won't take the time out to get to know you or teach you. They need to find roles for apprentices where the line manager/project are aware of who you are, what you do and that you are more than willing to learn especially as some project roles relate nothing to your course.

Your HR Adviser can literally be your best friend, they are very caring and try their very best to help. I didn't feel valued as such by my project managers or colleagues but everyone has had different experiences. If you don't make yourself loud and heard it's very easy to become non existent.

At the beginning it wasn't because they changed out university last minute as wasn't really sure what was going on but they sorted that withing the first week - which was annoying as we were left in the dark about the change of university. Now the programme follows a simple Structure, Uni on Monday, Work Tues-Fri however what you do at work is completely different/unorganised depending on your project and varies significantly.

The University is very much involved, always available once you send an email and very much willing to help!

Not much. As stated before, your HR adviser is your best friend, they are very much involved.

At first the pay was terrible because travel s very expensive especially if commuting. Once we brought this up Accenture did raise our pay, not by much but it at least they tried.

Loads of events you can volunteer for, very open to ideas of you finding new ways to recruit the next batch!

Yes

ONLY if they know they want to be a true tech wizard, if not they shouldn't apply.

Don't be fooled by the cool technology and devices you see, make sure that being a software engineer is at the heart of your purpose for applying. You will not be able to transfer into a different department, don't try to use this as a way to get in the company because you want to be a business analyst or a consultant. Your role is a software engineer, including Java, programming, coding etc.