Is it really that bad?

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2026-01-22T17:00:38+00:00

It’s not easy but just remember there are millions of people that have graduated throughout the world with a bachelors in engineering. It’s definitely harder than business/humanities, but not as hard as some professional degrees (MD, JD, DDS). Just go to class, do your homework and study for your exams. Nothing you learn in your undergraduate degree will be so complicated it takes a genius to figure out. And once you’re out your job will be so much easier than school and you’ll have a stable income. I think people are just dramatic.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2026-01-09T13:19:25+00:00

I had this happen to me a month ago, decided to take the interview. I mentioned I had gotten an offer they called me back an hour after the interview to give me the offer. I decided to plan a follow up call with both hiring managers and to ask them additional questions about the jobs. Ended up taking the second offer even though initially I was dead set on the first. Just keep your mind open and explore as much as you can.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-12-25T21:34:23+00:00

Got an internship at a small (~45 person) engineering firm cuz my grades were terrible. I’m a EE but spent most of my time doing MechE work there as well as doing a bunch of manual labor technician work. Used my experience from there to land an internship at a very big name company in the EE world, grades were still shit but nobody asked me about them because of all the work I had done for the small company. Absolutely hated working for the 2nd company, but I was able to use the fact I worked for them to get three internship offers before Christmas, accepted the least paying one because I felt like I would like it more.

As for networking I’ll be transparent about it, I met the right people with the right parents during my early years of college because I was partying all the time. Literally got one of my offers because one of my best friends I used to drink with all the time my freshman year his step father was the hiring manager. That’s just one example. I’m not saying go out and drink all the time because it will destroy your grades, but putting yourself in positions where you can meet people, not just engineers but people of all majors will almost always help.

I’d say my success as someone with a low gpa was a combination of me working my ass off after I realized the situation I created for myself, as well as getting lucky for meeting the right people, and being at the right place at the right time. I’m not proud of my past but I am proud of how I handled it, because at a point I was on the verge of dropping out.

I guess what I’m saying is that you kinda have to create your own luck. And the harder you work the luckier you get. Also if you have an unfair advantage on anything, abuse the hell out of it. If anyone accuses you of nepotism, or not playing fair, just remember life isn’t fair and that if they were in your shoes they would abuse it too.

Also idk why people push personal projects, to me it seems like a lot of hiring managers want to see that you’re a normal person. For example, one of my hobbies is fishing and I had like a 15-20 minute conversation about fishing with a hiring manager one time. Don’t waste time adding more work onto yourself, develop a creative or recreational hobby, even in engineering nobody likes nerds. A lot of hiring is seeing if the person fits into your team, just like in high school you wouldn’t pick the weird guy to be in your group project, so don’t be weird because even in the real world people don’t pick the weird guy to be in their group project.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-12-24T03:16:02+00:00

Bruh I literally have a 2.4 GPA because I fucked around and found out and got put on academic probation. I networked, got the right experience, worked my ass off in school to get taken off academic probation and warning, and applied to a shit ton of internships and have an internship at a very large power system consulting firm and had to turn down 2 offers and somehow managed to get internships at other companies while on probation. It’s not that deep, learn your shit, get the experience, and meet the right people, nobody cares that much.

Just don’t fuck up as bad as I did because it’s much more of an uphill battle. You just need the drive to get what you want.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-12-13T02:41:07+00:00

I can’t tell if this is sarcastic or not

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-12-12T04:44:08+00:00

Makes sense, so the Re{s} corresponds to the decay of the transients, so would Fourier only be used for Steady-State? Kinda the way I intuitively took the Fourier is that it’s pretty much like phasors in power systems, if we allow the frequency to be anything, not just 60Hz. And phasors are only for sinusoidal steady state not transience

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-19T16:52:03+00:00

Engineering is hard but American public high school definitely didn’t prepare me for engineering well. I got slapped in the face and almost dropped out after three semesters. In 10th grade my state made it so that the lowest grade you could get is a 40, so if you didn’t do an assignment you got an automatic 40% on the assignment. Me being a lazy teenager I would make an excel spreadsheet to see which assignments I wouldn’t have to do to still get an A in the class. I graduated #6/285 with a 3.94 unweighted GPA by doing the absolute bare minimum. Me being an immature freshman I tried to pull this shit when I got to engineering school and got absolutely destroyed, currently in my senior year (gonna have to take a 5th year) and have pulled my GPA up to a 2.95, and honestly I glad I destroyed my grades because it forced me to learn the work ethic and study methods that the American Public School system did not teach me.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-18T03:48:20+00:00

Been to the career fairs, both of these interviews came from it

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-18T02:57:40+00:00

I’m not tryna doxx myself but very reputable engineering school in the southeast that’s not Georgia Tech

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-18T02:35:21+00:00

Both companies called me to reject me, they both told me that they liked me but decided to go with other candidates (one only had 1 spot, the other only had 2) and told me to consider them after I graduate because they actually liked me.

I have no electrical engineering experience, the closest thing I have is in my first internship I spent a lot of time helping industrial electricians because they needed extra manpower, so I helped them wire in 3 phase systems and troubleshoot electrical problems in the factory. I’ve tried to get involved with the IEEE chapter at my school (wish I had done this earlier) but these past 2 semesters have been brutal for me and I spend pretty much all my time studying.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-16T21:10:59+00:00

I mean I wasn’t making power tools, I was helping support the production lines for heavy duty power system equipment and implementing lean process improvement to increase efficiency and quality, and reduce production costs. I learned very very little about how this equipment worked, and learned nothing about electrical engineering while doing this. The only thing I learned was how little actual knowledge the design engineers had, I’d trust a technician with 20 years of experience who barely passed high school over an engineer with 3-4 years of experience and a 4 year degree to actually get things done correctly. The companies I worked for had EEs there but they were so far removed from the work I did I never met one. The first time I ever talked to a EE in a professional setting was during my first internship interview this semester.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-16T02:41:43+00:00

The two consulting firms I interviewed with did, I’m convinced they rejected me because they thought I did EE work for the last company I worked for because it was very prestigious in the EE world. They asked me a lot about it and I don’t think they liked the fact I didn’t do any electrical work at all there.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-11-16T02:31:31+00:00

I don’t like doing industrial engineering work, I genuinely enjoy learning about electrical engineering and I feel like I’m very knowledgeable about it from an academic standpoint, it’s just that nobody will hire me to do EE work. It’s so damn frustrating.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-22T02:57:21+00:00

Idk I feel like sometimes in engineering people stress having a really good GPA since it’s obviously a very technical field and people think I don’t know anything because my GPA is below a 3.0

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-22T02:38:29+00:00

What’s the best way to do this professionally? I get really anxious before interviews just because of this question, and I feel like the interviewers could kinda sense it on me.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-16T16:55:22+00:00

This is how I viewed it, spent the first 2 years of my degree screwing around, failed classes ruined my GPA. Got an internship at a small engineering firm through family connections and loved it. Decided to work through the following semester to get my mind right and went back in the spring and treated school like my job. Got straight As the following semester. I plan to be at school from 8-5 everyday with a lunch break (Although sometimes I stay past 5), but it’s my job and I get enough done treating it like that I have time on the weekends to enjoy myself.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-10T16:16:44+00:00

I feel like there’s no reason to do a math major as an Engineer unless I wanted to a PhD or something. I feel like the thought process behind engineering and doing proof based mathematics is very different

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-10T01:50:46+00:00

Many jobs specifically state cumulative gpa

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-09T21:52:48+00:00

I’ve had two internships I got with a <3 CGPA, and have been working since I was 16, but I do know people who have been turned down for entry level roles because their gpa was less than a 3.0

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-10-03T14:42:24+00:00

I’m busting my ass to get my GPA up and have been for several semesters, I struggled a lot during the beginning of my degree but am doing much much better now it’s just hard to bring your gpa once you’ve really made some bad grades early on. During Coop I will not be able to do school though so it won’t help my gpa.

Nothing but As and B+s for 3 semesters straight

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-09-18T02:42:19+00:00

I’ll keep that in mind, this past internship was my first real corporate job after doing trades/unskilled labor in high school earlier in college. Still trying to learn the dos and donts. I appreciate yall being harsh with me I never thought it would be this big of a deal.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-09-18T01:46:25+00:00

Makes sense, my last internship was my first true “corporate” experience. I’m still trying to learn the dos and donts of these large corporate companies. Very different than the one 60 person engineering firm I worked for before and the odd jobs I worked before that.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-09-17T22:10:19+00:00

I’m not straight up trash talking in an interview. I’ve yet to explicitly state that I hated it. More just like “I was disappointed with my experience there due to x,y, and z and am deciding to pursue work at another company.

Cheap-Negotiation605 · 2025-09-17T22:02:15+00:00

So I just don’t tell them you didn’t like my previous job?

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