SD engineer Review

by BT Group

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

1.1/10

1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

the day to day work can be in general overworked under appreciated. no matter how hard you work or how many jobs you manage to clear you seem to be excepted to do more, and when you get held up on a job because it needs to be thought about you but told off for slowing down.

1/10

2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

yes I have learnt to work on a network that will be extinct in the next 7-10 years which gives me great hope for the future, with no signs of ever being fibre trained which is where the future of comms is. It has taught me to make do with what we have on the copper network as they will rarely replace anything.

1/10

3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

I don't, I am hoping to be able to transfer into BT into the rigging department as this is more the type of work I was doing before I joined openreach. If I had been place into the fibre programme then I would not be considering a move as that is where comms future.

1/10

4. How well organised/structured is your programme?

None, managers have now idea what you are up to, no one talks to each other. functional skills don't know what the NVQ department books. Training has been below the standard required and disorganized from week 2 all the way though to before I went on 3 weeks buddying, which is where I learnt my job.

1/10

5. How much support do you receive from your employer?

None, I have had to fight with my manager to be able to get a day to take the time to be able to get the pictures that are required for my NVQ, main training with pqms was broken and completely irrelevant and I learnt nothing and was thrown into the deep end.

1/10

6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

its poor, NVQ days are handy and give you time with the assessor, but as of the rest of the time it is a constant fight with my management to be able to get time to be able to do the work as all they, my manager, is concerned with are your work load.

2/10

7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

it doesn't, it is another unrelated part to the job as what you have to do in the real world to how you need to for your nvq.

1/10

8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

1/10

9a. Would you recommend BT Group to a friend?

9b. Why?

BT yes Openreach NO, unless you can get onto the fibre side of the company you are over worked forever stressed with trying to get a work, nvq and life ratio right and are still unsure when the dial tone is switched off in the near future whether or not you will have a job as you are copper trained.

10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to BT Group?

None I want a job on the rigging team first.