‘Want to help design winning racing cars, more fuel efficient planes, the biggest yachts, the fastest trainers?  With Delcam you can!  As innovators in computer aided design and manufacture we help product designers and engineers lead their fields by transforming their ideas into real world products through our range of state of the art software.’

Delcam is the largest creator of product development software in the UK, with thousands of customers across more than 80 countries and clients including household brands such as Boeing and Nike. Delcam have taken on around 14 graduates in the past year and place an emphasis on ‘offering interesting and challenging work with a relaxed and enjoyable culture’, offering graduates roles as software engineers, applications engineers and technical authors. Rated as one of the top 10 IT and Telecoms companies to work for in 2015/2016, Delcam has excellent ratings for management (4.5/5), work/life balance (4.6/5) and colleagues (4.7/5), however lower ratings for international opportunities (3.4) and location (3.6) bring the average overall rating down to a strong 4.2/5. 

The average working hours for Delcam graduates are 9am – 5pm, with one graduate software developer explaining that ‘Once you finish the graduate scheme (and even possibly before), Delcam is pretty relaxed about moving around your working hours.’ and another adding that ‘So as long as you make your 40 hours a week, you can pretty much arrange your own working hours’, The average graduate salary came in at £25,000 – £27,000, with graduates telling us that ‘there’s an annual bonus related to company profits’ and that ‘Historically, an annual salary increase is paid, minimally in keeping with inflation’. 

The best and worst things about working for Delcam include;

‘Because of Delcam’s particular area of software development (CAD/CAM software), the work has a tendency to be pretty interesting. Due to Delcam having existed for a long time (in some form or another for over 30 years), it has built up quite a lot of procedures that can seem pretty old-fashioned and sometimes unnecessarily complicated.’ Graduate Software Engineer, Software Development at Delcam

‘Great atmosphere at work, interesting projects, quick to get involved with real/important projects. Free tea/coffee 2x a day. Office is not ideally located if you don’t drive a car.’ Graduate Software Engineer, at Delcam
 
‘Freedom and flexibility to pursue the projects in conjunction with a real sense of ownership and worth of the tasks asked to perform. Not all rotations are fully focused on engineering (although this is only a temporary issue pre-completion of the graduate scheme).’ Application Engineer, PowerINSPECT at Delcam

Finally, interview tips include; 

Application Advice: Read up on some C++ before the assessment day. Practicing some mathematical thinking in some way is also probably a good idea.
Interview Advice: Having a reasonable grasp of object-oriented programming is probably a good idea. (Though this does not need to be very detailed or anything, an understanding of the motivations behind OOP and a bit about how to apply it will probably suffice).
Graduate Software Engineer, Software Development at Delcam
 
Application Advice: Research the core products that Delcam owns. Understand what they do and what industries they are used in.
Interview Advice: Asked about education – how I felt about the route I had taken to get to where I was at the time. Asked about CAD/CAM at university.
Application Engineer, PowerINSPECT at Delcam
 
Application Advice: Keep an open mind. With competency in CAD/CAM systems becoming definitive to the value of an engineer, Delcam is the perfect place to launch a career.
Interview Advice: Show enthusiasm, ask questions, we are not a company of pretense. Co-workers take pride in helping one another and being available. You will not be facing a panel of “suits” but instead active employees in your field, people who, if you are successful, will become your mentors.
Application Engineer, Delcam Professional Services at Delcam

Delcam have a number of positions currently available for graduates – click here to view available jobs! Want to hear more from Delcam’s graduates? Click here to view the full range of job reviews and take a look at the video below…

 

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