Data Analyst Review

Day to day, I audit and transform data models, and provide fixes for the final architecture. I also occasionally create interactive dashboards to analyse data relevant to my team.

Vodafone provide lots of training opportunities and often pay for courses and examinations, so long as it related to your day job. Vodafone have paid for me to attend courses for dashboarding software and Google Cloud stack training.

The programme is a mixed bag really. Vodafone as an employer are excellent. The work is always interesting and not too stressful, there is a good culture for respecting every worker. The training provider can be difficult at times with admin and organisation but that's the only downside.

I was in the first group of apprentices taking the data analyst degree course and I have seen it change, and more importantly, improve over time. Now, the course is very structured into modules with set term times and examination periods.

Easy answer, lots. There are many people that can help with issues at Vodafone. On joining, everyone receives a HR business partner who will be first point of contact for any HR issues, line managers are generally good at solving most issues too.

I receive some support from the training provider, this is mostly around course content. However, they are helpful in keeping your job role on track (some managers at Vodafone see apprentices as 'just another full time worker' and need reminding that we have to complete apprenticeship work too!

At first, the training from the provider helped in my job rile but personally, my job role has grown to be very specialised in a few particular areas so a lot of the training is not relevant to the role specifically. Still very valuable knowledge for future roles though.

There are lots of activities and social groups at Vodafone. We use a business version of facebook (called workplace) to connect the company, and there are hundreds of different social groups for football, coding, walking, LGBT, dogs etc.

Yes

The course is very technical and will leave you with very good knowledge afterwards. Vodafone are an excellent employer with great benefits (pension contribution, personal and 'friends&family' discounts, other discounts like cinema tickets etc. It is a very good work environment, not stressful and great people.

When applying, Vodafone are more interested in whether you/your personality fits the culture. Be polite and be yourself, have a joke about how bad the signal at your house is etc. Let others speak and be inclusive of everyone. Try to impress by mentioning something Vodafone have achieved recently.