"The biggest benefit was I sent in one application form for the Alumni Program which then opened me up to multiple opportunities and job roles with different companies."
My favourite part was the week we did on investment banking and FIX Protocol. Because of this training, I was more prepared on my first day as it exposed me to the terminology and gave me a base level to build up my knowledge of my role and how it affects customers. My trainer was fantastic, she made it really fun, interesting and engaging.
Because of lockdown, my software development training was delayed so they offered for me to join the production support classes while I waited. I found that training useful as it covered areas like Linux and servers which was really interesting.
As a Software Engineer graduate, the software development training was a good refresher as I hadn’t done much coding since I graduated a year ago.
I did half of a general IT degree with the Open University but after one software module, I knew that was the area I wanted to focus on so I switched to a software engineering degree at Kingston University and was much happier as I really enjoyed coding.
What I like about coding is that the challenges have clear cut resolutions; so when you have a problem there’s always a way to solve it. Finding the solutions to challenges drives me forward and makes me want to tackle each task head-on.
I have a stand up in the morning where the team get together and talk about problems that we faced the day before, anything that we're stuck on and what we're working on that day. Then I'll just jump into my work which involves analysing requirements, fixing code and writing new code. I also work on web applications built with Spring Boot and Angular.
