Apprentice Software Analyst Review

Software Support Analyst. I work to maintain different applications for different companies within Health and Local Government. This varies from analysing code, to assisting users who can't use their medical applications

Learnt basic SQL, very basic Java, learnt some interfaces like Jira

There were some aspects that were okay, some that weren't. Feel like we didn't know what we were getting into, and then were just thrown into it without much preparation considering this was all of our first role in anything like this.

Feel like another employee

Not very well structured at all. Spent many months without being able to actually do anything on any projects, which made it more difficult then when we finally had work to do, as we were just expected to know it.

The training providers are fairly decent.

A fair amount of support, kind of expected to just get on with stuff

Hard to make money stretch, although I feel like this is normally the case for a lot of people. Kind of disheartening doing the same job as other people but for less money, but that's apprenticeships.

Unsure of what this is in relation to. What opportunities?

No

The pay is lower in Bridgend than it is throughout the rest of the UK, feels like the apprenticeship was a mess and a bit of a disaster, work is boring and mundane, each apprentice was thrown into a different service at random. Felt like the three of us that were put on to health really drew the short straw. Had no integration from college into the working world and then got treated like a child.

Make sure IT is what you really want to do