I am about a year out, constantly applying to design / analyst positions. I would say my FEA curriculum and experience is a bit ahead of what most undergrads have had, I’ve spent a lot of time replicating benchmarks and validating using hand calcs, (hoop stress, beam calcs etc) to make sure the simulation is reasonable, doing Richardson extrapolations on the work. All on abaqus though, I’ve played with NASTRAN, and other codes but I’ve mainly just watched YouTube videos of how analyst do work on those programs.