Technology Apprentice Review

My role is a Technology apprentice and my day-to-day duties data gathering from applications teams, integration testing and completing college work.

I have learnt a foundation knowledge of IT from hardware to software and basic skills in Java, SQL, Batch Scripting, Unix Scripting. Also I have developed communication skills needed to integrate into a large company.

Not much at all. Most of the tasks given to me are either to hard or basic manual tasks. I don't feel as involved as I would like to be and most employees don't have the time or give the effort to help you.

I feel worthless to the company. I am given next to no responsibility and when I have an issue often ignore for weeks before someone else has the same issue

The program is really unstructured, most apprentices are clueless. Nobody seems to know the process of ending the apprenticeship and depending on which team an apprentice is placed into there is no consistency to how apprentices are treat

Most of the time I have just been provided with document to read though and teach myself. I don't feel there is much support in becoming part of a team.

I feel the level support totally varies from team to team. I Often sit at a screen waiting for hours for help. I feel support could be greatly improved. Very rarely had an opportunity for praise

The salary is decent, however the living cost of the area are really high. I barely have enough money to survive usually massively overdrawn toward the end of the month.

there are plenty of volunteering opportunities which all employees are advised to partake in one opportunity a year.

Yes

Salary is decent and there plenty of room for progression. The benefits are really good and the work environment is a nice place to work

Be prepared to sit about and do a lot of nothing. When putting down your area of interest try and get the in asap as positions will be filled by other applicants.