Apprentice Review

As we are on a 6 month rotation scheme, we change departments and so our work stream changes. At the moment I am working on a Fintech team which involves getting new start up banks to partner with Visa.

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Currently, I am enjoying my placement as I have a good team around me. However, in my previous rotations, I didn't enjoy it at all due to factors such as manager and general work I was allocated. The company culture is fairly relaxed.

As an apprentice, it can be daunting coming into an environment you have very little knowledge of. I would say as an apprentice, coming out of the programme, you will be a very value employee as you have had exposure to several areas in the organisation, which an average employee won't have. There is an internal recognition system which can be used by anyone at Visa to give you a 'shoutout' for any good work you've done. This can be very encouraging and makes you feel appreciated.

The programme is relatively well structured; we have regular training for each module etc. As an organisation, I think things could be better especially when onboarding new apprentices and at the beginning of each rotation there is often a period of time where you don't really have anything to get on with.

We have occasional meetings with our training coach and in general, the response time for queries and questions varies from tutor to tutor, but usually it can take a while.

Our Talent Manager is really hands-on with all the apprentices and is always willing to talk about any problems we may be having etc. With managers, their level of support varies depending on how busy they are, how much they know about the programme etc.

I am able to cover my essential costs and then have some left over for general spending, but not enough to put aside some savings which I would like to do.

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It would very much depend on what the person was interested in. For example, if they're someone who enjoys learning about new technologies and data, then I would. However, if you're more of a creative person then probably not as I don't feel there's a lot of good opportunity to be able to express creativity at Visa

The application process is pretty straight forward. Onboarding process at Visa can be very tedious and involves a lot of waiting. Before joining I would like to have been told more about what departments we would be rotating into and a realistic idea of what type of work we would be doing.