Junior Developer Review

General admin tasks, risk management, small dev tasks, defect fixes and support of business colleagues.

I've learnt the basics of the SDLC and how to work as part of a team spanning across multiple business domains and countries. Stakeholder management and risk management (product defects and vulnerabilities).

Lecture quality can vary wildly depending on your unit. Some units were lead very well with high quality lectures and material while others had frequent lecturer changes and content that was structured poorly leaving a lot of students confused.

Structure and organisation can vary massively across different units but even in the same unit due to lecturer changes.

Support from my line management and team members has been excellent throughout but support from the employer on a company level has left a lot to be desired.

Support from skills coaches has been great but it seems they are stretched very thin and have a lot of learners to manage and support. This has lead to somewhat frequent skills coach changes on very short notice. This also means you lose the working relationship you have built up with that person and have to start the process again.

The knowledge gained from the qualification doesn't have much use on the technical side of my job role but that is expected as the technical knowledge in my role is somewhat niche. The knowledge gained helps to rationalise wider business decisions as well as providing background context to some other technical areas which I may not interact with regularly.

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Pay is ok, there is the possibility of progression once you have completed the programme. You will have a permanent role on completion of the programme as well. Peoples experiences can vary from team to team however.

Raise concerns as early as possible. Ensure you keep all managers and stakeholders on the company and training provider side on the same page.