Software Engineering Apprentice Review

My daily tasks include developing my coding skills by working on tickets, and having a mentor that helps me along the way. I also have daily stand-ups where everyone discusses our achievements from the day before and our goals for today. We also have to ensure that we take part on training days as these are helpful and provide us with more experience for the job

I've learned many things from working with my mentor, they are very good and the whole team are lovely, from this I've learned a lot in terms of coding, but not only this I believe that my communication skills have developed as well. As the job does require a lot of communication via MS Teams it can be more daunting/intimidating to message someone but don't be!

I love the programme, I came from 2nd year University, I was not liking the teaching environment at University and thought I would try and get an apprenticeship as this will provide me with the same path to become a software developer but developing my skills through the workplace and get real-life work experience and has been very good for me.

I would say that my programme is organised enough, I am the first software developer apprentice in the team so it was a learning curve for the both of us. They have been very open and and ensure that any training days or anything related to apprenticeships within Sky I that am aware of them. and encourage me to strive and communicate with others. I've had the experience to work with a few teams and get a gauge on what I like and don't like.

I get a lot of support from my employer, they ensure that if there are any training days that I am going to them and I have many experienced developers that I can ask questions to that are happy to help. If there are any issues that I need then I am able to get these resolved quickly.

I have get a lot of support from the training provider as well, they assign tasks for me to complete and I can email them at any time if I need some assistance, we also have bi-weekly or monthly meetings to discuss the tasks at hand, I received so much support that I managed to finish the course within 6 months instead of a year!

Of course, having a goal to work towards encourages me to develop myself further, and through training I am able to become a better worker for my employer and not only this I feel more prepared in my real because of my training as they bring ideas and concepts that i was not aware of.

I have gone to professional networking events where I was a speaker for the next years apprentices' and that was fun! it helped developed my networking and communication skills, social events also happen every now and again which I always try to attend as they have been quite fun to go to.

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Sky has been a great company to work for, they make sure that you are treated well and you have many benefits that can help you if you need it from health care, sick pay, bike to work scheme, and many more. and of course you get free sky which is a bonus!

I would say to be yourself, and embrace yourself. Sky wants individuals and people who want to strive in the workplace. Make sure to be kind and prepare yourself in terms of having coding experience I found that trying coding questions from other websites helped me a bunch in developing my early coding skills