My Experience Job Hunting as a Mechanical Engineer

This is what job hunting for a mechanical engineering role is like. You’ll have to do design challenges, be interviewed by multiple people for long hours, and wait a while before you hear back. It’s just part of the process. Timestamps are as follows:

00:00 Intro
00:27 Apple Interview 1
01:07 Apple Design Challenge
03:25 Robotics Start-up Interview 1
08:36 Robotics Start-up Design Challenge
10:35 Robotics Start-up Interview Panel

MY SOCIAL MEDIA:

ABOUT ME:
My name is Tamer Shaheen, and I am a recent mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo. I like to make videos about university/college, engineering, and personal development. Thank you so much for watching!!

[speedinturtle]

How are these “design challenges” not just the companies getting free work done for them by people looking for jobs?

[maxadonna]

Seeing videos like this is honestly so insane. Tamer has probably the most stacked resume any mechanical engineer could have coming fresh out of college, and yet he gets turned down left and right. Really makes you wonder how impossible it’ll be to land a good ME job out of college

[SideLine]

boys and girls if you want a high paying job fast, go into utility power. Work on boilers, gas/steam turbines, solar and wind. There are tons of people retiring and they are hiring like crazy. Its not as glamourous as tech jobs like tesla, apple, and the like. But I have 100x less of an impressive resume than Tamer. I graduated with a 3.0 GPA with an engineering technology degree and no creator portfolio or anything like that. Starting base salary is 71k work from home/ traveling to sites and that's on the relative low end.

[MrSlicksss]

Yes please, as an engineering student you have made me realize what a massive void I have when it comes to experience and how to handle these real world problems in the engineering job hunting process. Thanks again for the quality content!

[patriciacortez]

YES PLEASE POST UNCUT FOOTAGE!! this video has helped me a lot in preparing and thinking of what questions might be asked and helped me make my own answers listening to you.

I feel like in the interview environment, no one shares anything and it can be hard for people who have never been to these panels and have no idea where to start

[MasonM]

Don't give up Tamer! Your motivation is extremely inspirational. I have never seen anyone with so much drive to get employed after so many rejections. I know a company will hire you soon and be grateful to have you on the squad. Keep up the good work, and thank you for showing us insight into what it's like being an engineer after school. It is great to see coming from an engineer in school right now. ❤

[PoojaDutt]

This was so informative! I'm not even a mechanical engineer but the way you described the case studies for the interviews were super interesting!

[martinmarraccino]

Tamer, thank you for keeping it real and sharing your true experiences job hunting. It’s refreshing to see someone on YouTube not fake their experiences. I’m also very impressed with the level of patience and persistence you have dealing with these companies 😅 (coming from a fellow engineer)

[icater]

Thank you for sharing your job-hunting process, Tamer. I was laid off at the end of the year last year and it's been a very hectic process landing in a new job. Somedays, I literally lose hope but I keep gridding knowing somewhere out there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. Please keep sharing your journey and fill us with more engineering content. Love from Europe

[jerrychijiokechukwuowo]

Honestly Companies ought to be paying interviewees for the design challenge

[supersean]

You are awesome dude. You’ll find a job soon. Whoever hires you will be extremely lucky to have you on their staff. You know your stuff, your attention to detail is legit and you are thorough. Good luck buddy. Keep making that YouTube money.

[ibellaly]

I would love to hear the uncut footages of your interviews. As a student pursuing engineering, I think it will be great way to hear what kinds of questions companies ask in the future. Thanks for this helpful video!

[GANDROID]

Imagine a start-up asking so much out of you, I'd just ghost them after asking me for a presentation

[cyborgyume]

This video was awesome, I was hesistating on whether to watch or not as it is 15 mins, but you never disappoint with the 'informative' content! Your skills in CAD are unmatched, Wish you the best, man!

[selamc]

Been here since day 1 Tamer, I love your videos so educational and entertaining!! And yes, the raw footage of your interviews sounds great!

[IamKudos]

YES LOVE THIS. VIDEOS LIKE THESE HELPS AS SUPPORT FOR THE REST OF THE PEOPLE STRUGGLING AND GOING THROUGH THE NITTY GRITTY DETAILS OF FINDING A JOB. KEEP UP WITH IT TAMER!

[isaaclopez-bunq]

Seriously, i look up to you man, all the effort you put in your career inspires me but watching those companies rejecting you terrifies me as well because i have 0 experience (I also wanna be a Mechanical Design Engineer). Great video

[munther]

I wish you the best of luck habibi. I am a huge fan of your videos. As a struggling Syrian Engineering student at YorkU who has been trying at it for a while now, your videos have given me a great perspective on what to expect when it comes to majoring and choosing a career in Engineering. It's disheartening that after all the tough undergrad years, grads still have to go through a lot of hoops to land a decent position.


I wonder if Engineering is still worth it nowadays. Nonetheless, keep up the great content and I'm sure your long awaited opportunity is on the horizon.

[uniform]

whatching you interview helps me get to see all the ways these meetings can go, and help me prepare, so yes please lol

[davids]

These companies are missing out so much by not hiring you on the spot. Great stuff Tamer!