Pros
- When I was there you did get a lot of hands on experience and given you actually took in the training you could learn a fair amount - providing you were being taught by a good trainer (some of the trainers were terrible) - Some of the people were genuinely nice. Most people seemed to want the company to do well but were held back by those higher up.
Cons
- One particular trainer could be very explosive and I don't know why this wasn't taken more seriously - it was very unnerving to be around and lead to them not being effective as a trainer at all since they were completely unapproachable - Very clear divide between management and apprentices - Would take on anyone which lead to a lot of toxic apprentices and in general quite a toxic working culture - No serious career prospects - No ethics; people were very happy to mislead/blatantly lie to apprentices, be very dodgy with people's pay, be very quick to fire people, etc. - No organisation/no clear direction for the company - didn't seem to be any coherent/consistent business model at all - Poor handling of a lot of issues - Very poorly thought out time scale for delivering training modules and the overall course - clearly didn't receive a lot of input from those with technical knowledge - Lack of commercial work, and the commercial work that was there was poorly managed - Very misleading marketing/recruitment material - Pay was very poor - Very, very skewed priorities - sometimes they'd come up with some new role or scheme or benefit for working there that made the company on a superficial level seem quite progressive and forward-thinking but below the surface there was all kinds of terrible, very regressive attitudes that as previously mentioned lead to very low morale In general a terrible beginning to your working life.