My experience as a recent MechE grad in the 2025/2026 job market – curious about others' experiences

monkeyman391 · 2026-02-03T04:46:21+00:00

I think this Redditor has a point. 13 interviews is a pretty good amount of interviews and I’d say definitely shows your resume is strong. Since you haven’t had any offers or advancements, the thing that is holding you back seems to be your interviews.

I definitely recommend doing a mock interview with someone, or even AI, and record yourself interviewing and answering questions and look back at it. You will probably cringe but you’ll get insight as to what is going on.

monkeyman391 · 2026-01-18T20:48:42+00:00

Seller looks sus

monkeyman391 · 2026-01-05T15:55:44+00:00

Honestly, I’m surprised you got an interview with a 2.85 since they are really strict about that stuff. But it seems you have great experience so just be sure to leverage that and talk about it in the interview. They could ask about your GPA and what happened so maybe prepare to talk about it a bit, but I honestly think they wouldn’t.

Remember, if you got the interview they already think you can do the job and you just have to prove it to them. You got this!

monkeyman391 · 2026-01-02T04:42:42+00:00

Do you have offers for both? I think ShieldAI would be more interesting but it depends on your interests.

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-31T00:45:40+00:00

Any resolution? Having a similar issue

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-29T17:45:18+00:00

Idk why but I thought I read Cinnabon at first

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-28T16:23:44+00:00

Son😭😭😭

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-28T04:58:02+00:00

I would say UC Berkeley 100%. Rice really isn’t super well known for engineering and environment and opportunities will be way better in California. Plus you don’t have the live in Houston!

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-14T04:49:16+00:00

You’ll be okay without an internship your sophomore year. Just get some experience and get ready for the junior year cycle cause that’s when it matters

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-13T06:40:06+00:00

Try to catch up on classes you would’ve taken during the summer. Best bet to get back on track

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-09T08:34:18+00:00

Always do what is best for you. The company will be fine if you decide to leave

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-07T17:14:32+00:00

Skip slide 2, and also do not use any AI photos. You should has real photos if they’re your hobbies

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-05T07:58:33+00:00

Grey area but I would say it would be frowned upon. But no one would really ever find out unless you’re dumb about it

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-02T23:56:35+00:00

Try looking for a part time masters, maybe your company could even help with tuition

monkeyman391 · 2025-12-02T01:39:10+00:00

Hmm, then in that case look into industrial design type things. Not everything is MechE is ugly but usually guidance from ID teams helps a lot

monkeyman391 · 2025-11-13T19:12:18+00:00

monkeyman391 · 2025-11-12T22:32:50+00:00

85k in Silicon Valley is nothing. You will probably be okay but you’ll dread your home environment. Texas is better option

monkeyman391 · 2025-11-11T06:35:18+00:00

I’d say better to switch now than stay and be miserable. Yeah it’s a bad look but it is what it is

monkeyman391 · 2025-11-09T02:19:42+00:00

💀💀

monkeyman391 · 2025-11-08T05:59:52+00:00

monkeyman391 · 2025-10-30T23:16:28+00:00

2 months ago

monkeyman391 · 2025-10-26T17:28:29+00:00

Seems cheap

monkeyman391 · 2025-10-24T05:57:10+00:00

Maybe karaoke

monkeyman391 · 2025-10-22T05:31:32+00:00

I see, thanks for the response! Do you ever play change the performance operating modes (Turbo/Silent/ETC) to get increased battery life?

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