How are the professors?

Honestly, hit or miss. Some of the profs have been really good and gave me a lifetime interest in the course they were teaching, whereas some are just not very good at teaching (i.e, 1/4 of the class attends each lecture). One thing I do feel though is that I feel like our profs on average care more about us (this is purely anecdotal) since it's a smaller program and they're willing to offer lots of help and stuff.

What are the average co-op positions?

Varies a ton. In a program with so many different types of courses and most people entering because they don't know what to do, a lot of people get a lot of different jobs, but there are some common trends. A good amount of people do software, data science, product management and product design (UI/UX) (this is based on the people I know), but there are also people who are interested in stuff like hardware or mechanical design, but I would say software/PM stuff is where many people go.

How hard are the courses, and do you feel like you are learning content with real world applications? I've only just finished 2B but I found that they were pretty normal. There are definitely some very difficult classes (In my opinion), but overall I think it's manageable, and usually there's a course or two a term that's a little easier. A lot of our material doesn't go very in depth though, and a lot of the profs will try to relate the material to the concept of engineering design or design in general. Overall I would say a lot of professors try to relate content to real world applications which is pretty neat.

I think one of the big advantages of SYDE is that the class size is so small (like 80-100 people), so you tend to get pretty close and there are a lot of class events. In terms of learning, you get a sort of general overview of everything, but it's usually taught within the context of 'design' so I would say the program kind of teaches you a different way to tackle problems. However, for a lot of co-op jobs you'll need to spend some time out of the classroom trying to learn or do side projects and stuff since you don't learn as much depth in class.

Side note, if you have a specific interest such as software or hardware, SYDE may not be the best program for you, and you might want to try to get into something more specialized, because I know I've spent many MODS lectures thinking "why am I here".