Apprentice Software Developer Review

Apprentice Software Devloper, I work within the tooling team which means I use different tools to help the business, every day different incidents are raised and its my teams job to fix the issues and alert the user to the fix. I work mostly within reporting at the moment but my tasks vary from day to day dependent on what is needed

I have learnt skills in ServiceNow, MS Access, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and much more. We have had several courses in Java and SQL. We had an 8 week training course to learn each language and other skills to help us succeed in the work place.

I very much so enjoy my daily work and i enjoy working within my team and with the other apprentices, the atmosphere within the work place is very relaxed and friendly which is good. The apprenticeship has exceeded my expectations and has been very good

I feel like i am making a big contribution to development in certain areas of Atos and have been praised by multiple managers in how i have help there work-life.

The program itself which is ran by QA is very unorganized and this has caused many issues for me as an apprentice. i have been told around 4 different months in which my apprenticeship will end and the training courses were poorly planned often without internet connection for an IT apprenticeship. meetings with the mentor are basically pointless as the information we receive from them we already know and the meetings end up being more so a rant from apprentices than getting any useful information from the mentor. We had to inform our mentor that we had exams to complete instead of her telling us.

When i was on the 8 week course i had extensive training from certain tutors, but other trainers didn't help at all. With in work we have had alot of training from multiple people across the business which has helped me develop my skills in areas i needed.

All Atos side of this apprenticeship has been brilliant, all internal training has been amazing in supporting my development as an employee.

The salary package that we receive is very good and is much higher than the average apprenticeship, however i live a very expensive lifestyle and travel costs eat into a large amount of my wages each month, however it is more than enough to live off of.

There are many events going on in Atos, all though sometimes in had to reach places, personally i do not go to any of these events out side of work other than events with people in are building.

Yes

I would recommend atos to a friend because the work environment is great and the salary is fantastic, there are many opportunities to further your career and managers are all approachable and easy to talk to. The daily work is very rewarding and there are many opportunities to learn new things .

I would have liked to have been told to start my security clearance ASAP because it took around 6 months to complete and in that time i was unable to do many of my daily tasks.