There are not many cons I can think of, just only these to take into consideration as a Level 4 Apprentice (UK): 1. Balancing your day-to-day work tasks on top of your apprenticeship learning can easily get too overwhelming (but there is support and help with that) 2. Your work-life balance can too easily go into the air especially as a young person with often (assumed) little responsibilities to take care of (but for those who do or are getting tired of constant travel for instance are able to take a break in their favour) 3. Reviews, reviews, reviews, and paperwork. It is no surprise there can be a fair amoun of paperwork involved in any job, you aren't taking life seriosuly if you think there can be a minimal or no amount of it. It does feel like with some of the work (not many, and they only happen 2x a year and a lot just applies to Consulting, not elsewhere in IBM) at first is a little unnecessary but can easily become a big drag to try get done by the deadlines. As an apprentice it is made 10x easier with the contract and resources at the ready so not much to state here. Really though I think these are more just trivial personal matters that I haven't seen much of the rest of the real world of work (in tech) yet so take these as a pinch of salt. There are overwhelmingly far more positives than negatives and if you want to go to uni but not be in debt/or not sure if you have the grades for it then Level 4 with IBM is the BEST place to be. You cannot find any opportunities elsewhere quite like this. I know from experience and word of mouth.
