‘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
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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…