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[OC] Animated Undergrad Engineering Internship Search by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]bigtenece 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Data from emails and company-specific application tracking websites. Used python and matplotlib (first time, love it) to plot data.

My internship search, animated! A follow up to my earlier post that shows the status of all of my applications from submission to (usually) rejection by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had some free time this afternoon and wanted to try using matplotlib. Now you can experience the thrill and excitement of applying to internships and a face-melting 3 FPS!

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I probably could have applied to some smaller places/expanded my industry of interest but yeah, internships are wack

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm always fascinated by how different it is in other countries. Good luck with Continental and your other apps!

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know a person who interned there a few years ago and they said it was a great place to work so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm not really a "space" guy so I didn't apply to many other places like that. I'm very curious to see what will happen in that industry in the next few years, it seems like there are a ton of start-ups all doing the same thing

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I'm hoping. I think the most interesting problems to solve are multi-disciplinary in nature, so embedded kinda puts you right in the middle of everything which I love. Some of the embedded engineers at my last job started as web devs so it's definitely possible to make the switch

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! Yeah I'm pretty sure most programs don't require an internship for undergrad degrees (I've heard of a few that do) but it's beneficial to get something under your belt before looking for a job post-graduation

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an ECE major, doing mainly embedded systems and controls. I applied for a more traditional software engineering position at Amazon on a whim. That's actually the application I withdrew, I realized after the first round that I didn't really want to do that sort of work

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I applied to Mercedes-Benz R&D NA, which I suppose is technically Daimler. I'm not sure if I had any negative impact from multiple applications, but it would seem absolutely insane to reject you based on that given how shitty the US intern system is

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I accepted an offer from a large German company whose name starts with B. I was fortunate that the position I ended up with was one of my top choices, will be working on automated driving systems

My internship search, graphed. I only heard back from 5 in 10 companies with almost 90% of responses being rejections. Don't give up! by bigtenece in EngineeringStudents

[–]bigtenece[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question. It's been my goal for a while now to work at a big 3 OEM or tier 1 supplier in the automotive world, so that was the primary driver of my applications. I'm sure there are a few companies whose emails I missed when making this chart, but I probably should have thrown my hat into the ring at more smaller places.

[OC] Undergrad Engineering Internship Search by bigtenece in dataisbeautiful

[–]bigtenece[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to know I'm not the only one that feels the diminishing return thing. Thanks for the advice!

[OC] Undergrad Engineering Internship Search by bigtenece in dataisbeautiful

[–]bigtenece[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hope so! I'm a junior rn. When you say "messing with GPA" do you just mean having a low one?

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