Software Engineer Review

My role is in an Operations team which monitors HMRC's servers and networks to ensure they are running correctly. My role also involves logging important and sensitive data, as well as allowing people within other teams to make upgrades to the current systems in patches and releases to improve current functionality.

I have learnt many new skills. This ranges from learning code and coding techniques to learning how to fit into a new role in a full time job. At University, I have learnt different types of code and how to approach scenarios and problems, which will help me significantly further down the road with my job. Other skills I have developed are my social skills in presentations as well as how to use people to their best abilities.

Thoroughly. The people on my course are great, supportive and feel the exact same way about the work we do. The work is hard but rewarding. The pay, progression, work life balance and relaxed improvement atmosphere all culminate to give me a good understanding of what work I am and will in the future be doing.

Very well organised. The manager running the course has clearly taken good practise along the way, and making it just as clear to us what we will be doing in the coming years. This is set out in calender's sent to all of us, going over 2 years in advance for us to plan our lives around this very, very well. Everything has been thought of and planned so we are never left a day off to do nothing.

A lot. I can speak to my team colleagues or my line manager whenever I need a chat or support, while receiving a slowly increasing amount of responsibility to fall in line with how much I am learning on the course. I keep regular contact with my review manager and the apprenticeship manager too.

As much as i could ever ask for! The tutors are highly supportive in small groups assigned to them, meaning they are there whenever we need advice from them. We have online service to our courses too, so we don't have to physically be there to receive feedback or complete work.

Not entirely, but that's due to the team I am in. The team I am in is much more focused towards pulling the other teams services together, so a good understanding of all the team's needs in a requirement. I have not had a chance as of yet to put my learnt code into practise as of yet, but I know in good time I will.

I am looking at joining 2 football teams while present here. I follow Capgemini on many social media platforms and Twitter in particular is a great place to connect with other apprentices and general people within the company to see what's in the news and what they are talking about.

Yes

There is no reason why I would not. Great pay, great work life balance, amazing chance for progression and movement within the company which happens regularly, a great community and workplace environment, easy team integration and the taught work is the perfect balance between demanding and testing our ability with time to intake what we have learnt.

Do it. Learn as much as you can about the course from previous apprentices or Mangers running the course as they can provide much better information that a video or a screen. As long as you've got the grades and the ambition, you can make it far in this company and this scheme in particular. Also, a good degree minus the £40k debt at the end of it sounds pretty good, right?