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have 2 degree apprenticeship offers but dont feel like i deserve them?

so i know this is gonna sound kinda weird but basically i received 2 DTS offers from 2 big companies. For the 1st one, on the day of the assessment centre there was only 1 other girl. Idk if this means they filtered out a lotta ppl or there just wasnt that many ppl who applied. For the other company there was a lot of ppl at the assessment centre and they said they would get back to use by the end of the week. 3 weeks later no response so i emailed them about this and literally 5 mins later i got the offer. I feel like they just gave me the offer just because i kinda helped remind them? Idk i dont wanna sound ungrateful but i feel weird.
Reply 1
Maybe there was more than one assessment centre for the first one? For my software engineering degree apprenticeship I was the only one there on the day for interview, but they were interviewing over a number of days. Alternatively was the apprenticeship based in a more remote/difficult to access location? I think that will probably makes them less popular. I applied for quite a lot and some seemed far better organised than others, the second one sounds badly organised (I had something similar with Barclays and would not have accepted it if I got offered) so I probably wouldn't choose that one. What are the companies? Have you checked them out on rate my apprenticeship?
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Original post by Jakson123
Maybe there was more than one assessment centre for the first one? For my software engineering degree apprenticeship I was the only one there on the day for interview, but they were interviewing over a number of days. Alternatively was the apprenticeship based in a more remote/difficult to access location? I think that will probably makes them less popular. I applied for quite a lot and some seemed far better organised than others, the second one sounds badly organised (I had something similar with Barclays and would not have accepted it if I got offered) so I probably wouldn't choose that one. What are the companies? Have you checked them out on rate my apprenticeship?

yh so the first one is GSK and the other is Thales both for software engineering. I am planning to firm GSK, what do you think abt the company and also did u apply for it ? if not do you know anyone else who did? i just wanna know how competitive the DA was
Original post by jake102:)
so i know this is gonna sound kinda weird but basically i received 2 DTS offers from 2 big companies. For the 1st one, on the day of the assessment centre there was only 1 other girl. Idk if this means they filtered out a lotta ppl or there just wasnt that many ppl who applied. For the other company there was a lot of ppl at the assessment centre and they said they would get back to use by the end of the week. 3 weeks later no response so i emailed them about this and literally 5 mins later i got the offer. I feel like they just gave me the offer just because i kinda helped remind them? Idk i dont wanna sound ungrateful but i feel weird.

congrats on the offers, yeah like jakson123 said have u seen the companies on rate my apprenticeship and what are they?
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Original post by ahamdkan1567
congrats on the offers, yeah like jakson123 said have u seen the companies on rate my apprenticeship and what are they?

bit confused by what u mean by seen them? I found GSK thru ratemyapprenticeship but for Thales i found them thru the gov website
Reply 5
People leave reviews on ratemyapprenticeship which can give you an idea about whether they have found them to be a good apprenticeship and what they have learnt etc. I didn't apply for GSK or Thales but I'm sure I remember reading someone saying they had an offer for GSK - have you done a search on software engineering apprenticeships or GSK apprenticeships on here? Might be worth a try. Don't feel like you don't deserve your opportunity though! GSK is a huge, well known company, you should be proud!

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