EDAS Software Engineer Apprentice Review

Hybrid home/office working in a team of software engineers. Responsibilites are usually taking on tasks to help the team, e.g. developing code, testing, documentation, code changes. Attending online university lectures and developing a portfolio of evidence showing how you are developing personally and professionally.

Yes, mainly coding and working with software in general. Other general professional development for working in a professional industry.

Very much, the people are great and always there for support. The work is interesting and made for you to learn and develop skills. The university lecutres are good but sometimes if time is not managed well the workload can creep up a lot but overall good.

Pretty well, the split of workload is good for managing time well. But sometimes university workload is a lot in a short space of time, and the portfolio of evidence had a bit of confusion around it as it was a new programme.

Loads, never have an issue getting support for any issues at work. Online tools, contacts and people in the team are always available to help out.

A decent amount, support is normally available but not as easy to get all the time as you're not in contact as frequently as with the employer.

Good for building foundations of knowledge and basic skills but not much in-depth work to use in the role yet.

Yes, there are lots available to join, emails go out with invites and dates, there are online ways to sign up or see which ones are available too.

Yes

I've found the course really useful so far, always have loads of support available and the people are really good to work with, the work is interesting too.

There is no need to be great at coding etc before becoming a software engineer, it might help, but you will learn those skills. If you are applying, focus more on being eager to learn and develop, as you can learn the skills on the job.