I applied for the Apprenticeship scheme through Makers Academy, to be placed at Accenture on completion of the course. I successfully completed all the stages of the Makers selection process, which included some coding (Ruby), and a phone interview. Then there was an online assessment from Accenture, which was all based on a customer project situation and had a lot of "rate the responses from how you're most to least likely to behave". There was also some data analysis and some logical thinking. It was pretty immersive and I received an automated strengths and weaknesses report, which was probably the best part of the whole experience. The f2f took half a workday with barely any notice. Most of the in person interview was situational questions (strengths-based interviewing), one of the situations was a recorded conference call. A lot of the questions in the f2f as well as the online assessment seemed generic and irrelevant to the job, as they were consultant- rather than engineering-centered. The most frustrating part, however, was the feedback, or lack thereof. I feel like after a candidate dedicates half a day - takes time off / risks current employment - for an interview, the feedback provided could be a little more than a send-to-all no-reply email ("although you showed great potential, you didn't tick all the boxes")... But perhaps I should be grateful I wasn't ghosted like so many companies do no matter how long you've been in the process.