Training & Personal Development at REA Group

We have REA university and also other resources to study further I used ACloudGuru to get my AWS certification I used frontend masters to learn about React

Got the REA-university where courses are available, budget to get external qualifications like AWS quals. Culture at REA is great for learning with internal guilds

the formal and informal training is pretty good. you have time to learn for youself informally, and formally, you learn quite alot from the teams you are on, as well as the classes they provide about different areas of the business.

I'm in the grad program so I get lots of training

There are plenty of internally run training sessions and training sites available to me

Limitless training and development

At REA Group, we have REA University. This is a website that contains links to some great blogs, videos, and online courses. But we also have included in this some employee run courses (usually 1 or 2 day courses) about so many topics. We have tech specific ones to help you learn a new language, or soft skill courses like "Becoming a better presenter", as well as design and business courses.

We have home grown internal training that is curated and run by REA staff as well as external training offering and budget.

The internal training programs are really good and they also have training budgets for external training, books or conferences.

Orientation as a graduate was really well handled and helpful. The technical aspects were run by former graduates. The grad program itself consisted of three rotations - each in a team of my preference. Each rotation offered different hard skills experience, and allowed me to tailor my learning to the areas I wanted to specialise in by selecting teams that could provide work in that area. Jumping between 3 teams in 12 months provided its challenges, but also helped me to learn how to adapt better, and inevitably forced me to become much better at time management. Rotations were complimented by a training budget afforded to the grads, which we were able to spend on courses, books, seminars/talks and similar. This allowed for an increased degree of specialisation if we weren't receiving it through our rotations, or simply an extension of the learning we had already done.

Lots of internal training programs relating to soft skills, mainly around presentation and how to say no to things (e.g., meetings, tasks). I think I could be doing more of this sort of stuff as there is so much available within the company.

Buckets of trainings to take part in. I've attended in-house Android, iOS, and Scala trainings run by senior developers from the company. In addition, interest groups around UI, functional programming, etc run frequent sessions