Rating

6.1/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
  • Role involves attending daily standup meetings, coordinate with scrum master and product owner for documentation and review. Work with offshore team on the daily basis to update weekly status report. Part of sprint planning with development and testing team.

    6/10

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
  • Yes, learning new skills from others in the team

    7/10

  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
  • Trying to be relevant to what it is being done on day to day basis

    4/10

  • 4. How well organised/structured is your programme?
  • Some hiccups during the organizing of the training. Once the call link was not updated on the hub till the last moment. Had been 2/3 verification calls to confirm the same details, as they have missed my previous information.

    1/10

  • 5. How much support do you receive from your employer?
  • Great, both functional and line manager are supportive and look after what needs to be done for my overall growth. Having review and 121 every other week.

    10/10

  • 6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
  • There is support from training provider but apprentices are not approaching them, but yes there exist support.

    7/10

  • 7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
  • Helps during the some assigned tasks. But the major issue is after completing this apprentice, there is no role for project manager to get into. I will have to roll into some other role eventually.

    5/10

  • 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.)
  • Yes, lot of social activities around the office space.

    9/10

  • 9a. Would you recommend NatWest to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 9b. Why?
  • Great culture and work ethics. Plenty of support for newcomer and when needed.


  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to NatWest?
  • Try to identify what role may suit you, even if you did not you can get rolled into other teams once you get into the organisation.


Details

Level 3 Apprenticeship

Project Management

Edinburgh

March 2024


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