DTS Degree Apprentice - Software Engineering Review

Mixture of dealing with customer support tickets and working on internal DevOps projects

Have learned about agile and expanded on programming skills

I'm generally quite happy but feel that the team I'm in isn't particularly suited for software engineering apprentices. I would prefer to be in a more development focused team in order to have more career progression opportunities

WMG are pretty poorly organised leading to confusion around timetables, assessments etc. The work side very much depends on your team, if your manager puts the work in to support you then you'll be fine but if not you may find yourself twiddling your thumbs waiting for things to do. Early carers team are too hands off and don't offer support without explicitly asking for it.

Again, this depends on the team. I have good mentors in my team so I'm lucky but some people really struggle to get support or communication from their team. The dedicated early careers team are generally pretty bad at reaching out and supporting apprentices unless you explicitly seek them out.

Depends on the lecturer. Some are very competent and supportive so you feel confident you'll do well in the assessments. Some modules are quite poorly structured however so you'll end up unsure of what to do, when it's due etc.

I have been able to apply a decent amount of classroom knowledge to my workplace.

There are worl networks like the gender equality network & pride network. There is also an early careers community that organised events outside of work but I don't know of many apprentices that are part of it.

Yes

Has the potential to set you up well for your career just requires a bit of luck and a lot of hard work

Be passionate, know the company and be yourself