Engineering Interviews Be Like
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- Job hunting in engineering can be stressful, so here’s a little skit/re-enactment of a typical mechanical engineering job interview. The intention of this video is to give people who haven’t done engineering interviews a better idea of what to expect. I respect all my interviewers and this video is meant for educational purposes and is not a parody.
Every job interview isn’t the same, but this video focuses more on patterns I’ve seen with the 50+ engineering job interviews I’ve done. The video is broken down into 3 sections with the following timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Tell Me About Yourself
01:54 Your Projects
03:49 Technical Questions
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I expected this to be comedy but I ended up learning about interviews. Thanks a lot!
Glad you liked it :)
same lmao
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Absolutely right ✅
When engineers make comedy videos
Mechanical Design Engineer here.
I did 3 interviews (2019). 267 applicants, 20 went to phone interview (just voice), 10 went to 1st in person interview with prospective manager and 2 other engineer managers, 5 went to final interview with the director, future manager, and 1 other lead engineer. I beat them all 😎. The director and other engineer were gauging my personality and ability to work cross discipline and culture fit. This time my future manager gave me technical questions like this video, I used a white board to initially problem solve for 5-10min before presenting a final answer. THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU GET THE RIGHT ANSWER. They want to see how you THINK how you PROBLEM SOLVE. That's what an engineer is, a problem solver.
Beat all 267 applicants, out of college starting at $84k (Sacramento, CA). His reactions to feeling like he killed a question and then being surprised by another is SPOT ON.
Side note: if asked a technical question requiring a formula you haven't memorized, be honest and ask for the formula they WILL give it to you.
Also, always have ready "So what questions do you have?" questions. I go for "What's your favorite part of working for XXXX?" Or "What fundamentals of engineering do you most commonly finding yourself looking up during a design phase?" Or "What's the most difficult engineering problem you've faced workjng for XXXX?".
I find these questions throw off the interviewer in a good way. It makes them think the way they made you think and is the cherry on top to making a memorable impression.
Go out there and GET PAID.
Thanks man, I really appreciate you tips and advice.
How much of mechanical engineering would you think requires thinking mathematically? I am thinking of being an engineer but I really suck at math formulas and how they translate to the physical world, but I like the designing part and how materials interact.
wtf 84k in california damn you should of gotten more
Enjoy serving a bunch of managers who really couldn't care less about your career development. When something changes in the market, they'll be cutting your job with a PIP or some other demoralizing mechanism which you will be forced to participate it, and replace you with someone younger, more pliable, and who will work longer hours with less pay.
@@CloroxBleach-hi6jd not at all. its not a software job, so its a great starting salary for a mech engineer.
This was a very accurate portrayal of a typical interview for a mechanical engineering position at a large tech company. The steel aluminum question is a classic. Love how you inadvertently said hit me😂
Yea haha...I’ve done enough interviews to notice these patterns
Accurate 100%. I hate interviews so much. Feels like you take 10 exams at once and then you find out that you have to take them again 2-3 time more. In real life, no one would expect you to respond to questions or solve 10 problems in one hour. When you work on a project, you have weeks or months. It would be better if the first interview would be just getting to know you and for the second they would just invite you over to their place and let you work there for a day. They can see what you're like, better that way.
It's taken me about 22 interviews to finally get my first job as an Aerospace Engineer. This is so accurate🤣😂
Haha 😂 congrats on ur job tho :)
are you liking your job?
That's a big achievement congratz🥳
Do you have any advice?
That’s great! You must be happy the hard work payed of!
"My plan for large scale production of prototype?" has been the most consistent questions in all of my interviews, and it turns out, Injection Moulding is always the right answer.
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this was an incredibly stressful video to watch as someone a semester away from graduation lol
lmao I’m with you. Just finished up my 6th semester this fall and have yet to find any work experience thanks to a certain spiky ball. we’ll make it!
Its not that bad. Just do your research and make sure you have a basic understanding of the field you wanna go into.
I totally get you but believe me when I said the best part of university is always the graduation day.
Can relate hahaha
In my senior year, I had four interviews resulting in two offers. Just be open and honest.
I’m a chem Eng major and you motivate me to understand more than memorize, thank you!
Happy to hear that :)
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As someone who is going through quite a few engineering interviews this is scarily accurate
HAHA
@@TamerShaheen Quick Question: For the rod sliding down the hill, I got the right answer but did it differently. Since the moment of inertia is mr^2. The solid disk has smaller r values for different point masses. Therefore the moment of inertia would be smaller, compared to the hollow rod. Since moment of inertia is small for the solid cylinder, their would be more angular acceleration of the solid clinder, which of course results in a higher angular velocity. Since the rotational kinetic energy is proportional to angular velocity squared, it would have less tangential velocity. Therefore the hollow disk would arrive faster.
However, apparently this is wrong. So I wonder where my thinking is bad.
@@MarkSmith-vo1vn Is it sliding or rolling? Two different problems at play with different mechanics to take into consideration.
For a sliding rod: with similar friction properties and no air resistance the answer should be arrive at the same time regardless of mass. With air resistance, if the aerodynamic properties are similar the one with more mass would be slowed down proportionally less as the force from air resistance should be the same for both and thus arrive slightly faster than the one with less mass.
If they are rolling: the one with a lower moment of inertia (solid rod) would arrive faster than the hollow rod due to the equation showed in the video. IE hollow objects have a higher moments of inertia than solid objects. Look at an equation for moment of inertia. Basically the farther away the mass is from the center of rotation, the higher the moment of inertia. Thus a sphere has the lowest moment of inertia by solid objects for rolling with a solid cylinder in second place.
I feel so damn fortunate that I only had to get through one job interview myself to get my job in engineering.
Well, I did the interview with 4 engineers and 1 psychologist, some of their questions are :
1. What is the max temperature of steel that can held up until it got melted
2. How to weld different alloy materials ( refers to the welding tools)
3. Draw a diagram of aluminum, at what point it gets the yield point, and what happen at that point
4. What is critical stress, what are the causes, and how that happen
There's few more, but I don't remember the rest.
Oh and it's a specialist trainee job at refinery (crude oil).
Good luck
I recently had an interview - to be a cashier - at my local grocery store.
The funniest part about this video - is the grocer was just as serious about putting bottles on shelves - as an engineer designing a 100ft tall "glass table top", that can hold 10,000 pounds, and hovers over a concrete parking lot, filled with pedestrians.
Just as serious.
Haha this is a very precise representation of a classic mechanical engineering interview! In my personal experience, I’ve always noticed recruiters asking questions that will assess your knowledge of the engineering field, as well as your creative problem-solving abilities to turn a theoretical device into a real product. Superb video as always Tamer :)
Yea recruiters usually ask questions that are slightly different than what engineers would ask. Glad u liked it :)
pretty good. ive realized that interview questions are bs. it doesn't matter if they are wrong or right, as long as you can support yourself well and seem passionate about it, theres really no wrong answer lol.
That was a Interview Tutorial, thanks man. You made my opinion clear that before going on to some complex stuffs, I should strengthen my Basics
As a recent engineering graduate struggling to get a job I found this video scary and comical- just like my four years.
ikr😂
@saif Ullah Terrible, sadly.
@@byronhaversham6238 Keep trying man, it's one of those things that just sucks until one day it doesn't. Keep learning what you can from every interview.
@@byronhaversham6238 which engineering course did u take ?
@@Felix-yb5pd Mechanical courses with a bit of electrical.
You got the hollow cylinder question wrong: as the inertia of the hollow (mr^2) is bigger than the full body (mr^2/2) , the hollow reaches second
That's literally not even the point. They care about your process, not your answer - getting a wrong answer explained well is better evidence of a good engineer than some nerd know it all who is awkward.
Both answers get you the same pay check, and in reality you only use calculators for actual math.
Stop being awkward bud.
@@noonenoesbutme Thats not even a calculator answer, its an analytical one.
Very accurate! I just did an interview with Shell here in Canada. Was two hours long, one hour being technical questions and one hour behaviour based. Extremely key to prepare on what concepts that are outlined in the posting, especially for the technical portion! Luckily I was successful and got the job !
"PC is harder to machine than PP"
- same guy who literally just said it's going to be injection molded 10 seconds ago
Nice video! In the question about a solid and hollow rods sliding, I think the right answer would be that the solid one reaches the ground faster due to it having lower moment of inertia, so less resistance to roll (hollow is always slower). Both have the same energy=mgh, but when sliding the one with higher inertia will have less translational velocity. I'm not 100% sure though.
If they were rolling you’re right. They’re sliding though so the MOI doesn’t matter.
you are right in cases in which friction acts between the rod and plane
@@mattat3847 If that’s the case, why did he use angular acceleration in the second scenario?
1 easy way to find out. get a solid rod and a hollow rod, then roll (or slide) them down an incline at the same time. My intuition says the solid is faster.
I don't think this question is 100% related to the hammer vs feather gravity experiment, because your rolling (or sliding) down a inclined surface.
@@mattat3847 They can slide and roll though. The way the picture was drawn, there isn’t much reason to think they wouldn’t end up rolling too.
This is so eye opening, thank you for sharing this
Bro, your content is gold. You do a really great job with your videos. Keep it up!
Really great video. I've done probably a dozen interviews in my career (I got an offer more than half of the time) and I got asked technical questions like the examples pretty infrequently actually.
I kind of wish I actually got asked those more often because then I could show off what I know.
Although when I've been on the other side of the table I've been a bit reluctant to ask those because I rely on search engines and computer programs so often myself I don't find it fair to ask questions like that unless the person has a computer. Honestly the next time I need to interview someone I'll think about giving them a laptop if it's an in person interview and asking them some easy questions or telling them it's ok to use Google or other programs if it is a video call just to make sure they can do this sort of work.
I have had dozens of engineering interviews and I have never been asked any of those kinds of generic questions. I don't know if this is specific to the industry I am in or maybe geographically specific, but every question I have been asked was very focused on the type of product I would have been dealing with. Most of the interviews I have had were in aerospace engineering, more specifically for mechanical design positions, repair analysis positions and manufacturing analysis positions. The typical question would be to receive drawings and determine the type of manufacturing, the function of parts, to find features on a drawing and describe them, etc. There is also a general emphasis on projects done (this is the moment to shine with extracurricular activities boys and girls). Depending on the industry, there may be generic questions about the fundamentals of the products too. For instance, a typical question from a turbine engine manufacturer would be to describe the engine cycle or to determine what type of turbine engine you are looking at (given a drawing of some sort).
Long story short, be prepared for the specific details of what you are applying for. Also come prepared with decent past projects to showcase your skills, they can make or break an interview a solid 90% of the time.
This was such a great video. 😄 Thank for good stuff like this
Man, Engineering interviews are something else. 😅
Similar to the interview that lend me my first role with ITM at UNDP as green energy intern.
Excellent portrayal right here 🙌🏾👍🏾
Thank you man, found this very useful!
Thanks a lot for making this ! 🙏🏾
The lightbulb question stumps almost everyone! I’ve asked a ton of friends and only one has ever figured it out.
Great video! I wished I could answer as quickly and to the point as you though.. My interviews usually have a lot of hiccups of me trying to remember stuff from class
This video got me the job I have now, Cheers to you man!!
Very informative video
Thanks for guiding us
Now gonna work on basics so
Can crack any interview
The lightbulb riddle is so cool.
Thanks this was an incredibly amazing video.
Great video! Thanks
Amazing bro thank you
Dude so creative 😂 and informative!
Glad u like it
what a video! great tips, I hope they help me!! 😃
As someone who just got a graduate role in a large engineering company, I would say that anything outside your bachelors like, internships, Research roles, Master's degrees and personal projects are critical for reducing the amount of failed interviews you go on. I applied to about 20 jobs with one interview and one offer, at my first choice, before I have even graduated. All because I ticked all of their boxes and could sell myself well.
Internships and personal projects >>>
Hello. I'd like to talk to you about these...I'm an engineering undergrad. Can I get your email or something?🙂
@@samuelotono3367 Hi Samuel, unfortunately I won't be able to send my email. But if you have any particular questions I will be happy to answer them here. I think that would be beneficial to the group 😁
@@thomasmorris1439 thank you. My first question is how would you advise one start off with personal projects, especially in a school where it is not common?
@@samuelotono3367 I've found that there are three common routes students go down with personal projects and they also fit different budgets and commitments.
Firstly you have coding projects, which are brilliant for developing another skill which you may not be taught on your engineering course .
Secondly there is 3D printing. Which will alow you to learn about CAM whilst also developing your CAD skills.
And Finally there is automotive work, rebuilding a gearbox on your car might seem a bit odd when relating to engineering design, but hands on experience is highly valued and will help you stand out.
These are often combined.
Keep up the great work work m8! You’re a natural at this.
Thank you :)
This is fantastic!
Love your videos.
This video was actually pretty helpful, thanks!
😄😄
The second Interview took me by surprise too the funny party was that I had a final one after the second one!!!
how did I not find your channel earlier! You're a mechanical engineer just like me (but you're way more proactive!)
A very successful interview!!! Great! :D
Sooo funny.... And yet useful questions... Keep it up man
Appreciate it
I love this!
I’m kind of thinking of entering ME - these videos both stress me out and inspire me :) I understand and enjoy the content, it is only the effort that I’d have to put in that makes me apprehensive. i know that as long as I fine tune my skills and put in the effort, I will do great. Maybe lol. I want to do great.
These videos are getting better 🔥
Thanks :)
I watched this right before my first ever internship interview and knowing that I could ask for a few seconds to think helped me immensely
TH-cam just recommended this video to me and I love it 🥰 🥰🥰 Thanks a lot
I’m an automobile engineer in my final year
Glad you liked it and good luck in ur final year :)
Tamer Your Videos are amazing and super helpful 🥺🙏
So happy you like them :)
Great video bro. It would be interesting if you could make a video about your second resume of the pros of that resume and your critique of it.
For sure, I’ll do that
That single good after asking how your day was killed me 😂😂😭😭
I feel like your account is super underrated and you definitely deserve more subs than what you have currently. :') Thank you for motivating me to stay sane because these videos makes us feel valid.
i'we been on two interviews and they went like this:
-You want to work here?
-yes
-you're hired
I call BS
@@mba2ceo kind of the same here, some technical questions but no panel review or anything like that
Lol, I am looking for a job in IT (Information Technology) dealing mainly with tech support. Typically, it takes me at most two interviews to land a job. The first interview would primarily serve as an introduction. A second interview will be scheduled if they like me, which will be either a technical interview or a casual interview. In either case, the first round could be a casual getting to know you interview, followed by a technical interview, or vice versa. I am thankful that I am not aiming for a software developer or an engineer with three to five stages of interviews. Retail and restaurants are easy to get into with at most one round of interviews. Anything outside of that industry could be more than one.
This is well executed.
Great video, but I must make a materials engineer touch to it :) Aluminum has greater ductility than steel so you should have ended its stress strain diagram at a greater elongation of break.
I love you so much you are my inspiration to continue working on my aerospace engineering degree hoping to be like you one day tamer
Happy this motivated you, keep it up 💪
Very entertaining but true. Not many appreciate how weird questions can become.
Hi, I love your channel, very useful stuff. On this video I believe though, both answers of the rolling cylinders are wrong. It depends on how the mass is distributed away from the axis. There is an amazing lecture from Walter Lewin at MIT on this matter.
so true brother i recently given 3 technical interviews and i i can feel that....
I’m going to my second year of Uni as a Mechanical Engineer and Icl, Watching this video scares me… Ain’t easy man 😅
Yup! Got that exact rolling cylinder question!
It’s crazy how common it is haha
The part where there are more interviews hits hard lmao
learning and development!!!
On point!
LOL the "wait, there is more?!?!" part is too accurate.
most accurate parody i've seen so far!
This video makes me really nervous. I'm close to graduating. I'm breezing through my senor year and feel like I don't know anything. I actually was able to answer all the questions you used in this but still feel like in a interview my questions will be something I really don't understand that well.
you didn't mention the marathon that is presentation + consecutive panel interviews lol
Tamer you are the best thank u very much
The "nooo not yet I can't see.. oh oh I got it"
It happened to me today 🤣🤣🤣
Literally everytime
Dude you killed it 🤣
Ayeee yooo! It be like that! DEADASS!!!
Plot twist: Tamer is actually preparing for his next interview
👀👀
Hey, really nice video and the others too! I was wondering if they actually ask those kind of questions about materials and the other calculation questions in job interviews. It seems really close to the material you study in the mechanicale engineering courses.
It depends on the interviewer. Some will only ask u about ur projects, while others will ask u calculation questions and stuff similar to the work u did in school.
I did 2 internships and have had 1 full-time job as a mechanical and probably have done 6 interviews total. Only 1 asked me technical questions, the rest where just about what I liked to do and my projects. This is just anecdotal obviously.
Thank you for this!! Could you make a video on how to have a better chance of getting more interviews.
I think my internship video has some answers to help with that, but I’ll make more videos about it as well
@@TamerShaheen Alright, thanks!
I suck at arithmetic but this kind of makes me want to study mechanical engineering. Seems like you actually get to think about interesting stuff at work.
Bruh, I just got back from my 4th round of interviews to find this on my feed.
I conduct a lot of mechanical interview questions and I put a good amount of work to not ask all the basic stress strain questions and ask quality questions based on basic physics and math.
I respect that. If you don’t mind me asking, what type of questions do you like to ask in your interviews?
How do you determine between candidates who just aren't familiar with the terms on the spot but could easily figure it out in their own time?
Bro need a video specifically on *mechanical design* some tips and ur experience so far in the industry.
Ok for sure
The stress of engineering interviews are real, but you seem like a pro. How were you able to simulate the google meet interview with yourself? I’ve been trying to simulate this in my videos lol
I filmed myself talking to a camera and then played that video on my computer. Then I took my camera and filmed my computer screen. Meanwhile, I put an image of the google meet background behind the video as it played on my screen. Hope that made sense 😅
@@TamerShaheen Haha I think that makes sense, thank you!! Much appreciated.
Swear thought your were flash from mcu spiderman. Great vid
Funny. Software eng here, but our tech interviews are similar in nature, topically diff obviously. Def have had the light bulb question before.
I don't know shit about engineering, but i'm taking the ielts test soon and your professional range of vocabulary helps a lot.
I despise the "We'll reach out to you" line. I always follow up with "when can I expect to hear back".
Three lights question. Turn 1 on, remove all wires from switch 2, short wired together on Three. Go upstairs verify 1 is on, measure 2 and 3 on DVM, I'm an EE.... LOL
Love from Bangladesh and i really love your physics probs
Bro you are awesome
Can you please make a vido on questions asked in electrical engineering student interview
Underrated
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Wow! This comment section is full of people telling me this is quite accurate! My first interview is on Monday and this video terrified me!!! :D
Well how did it go? I am in a similar situation
@@drewmiguel7531 It was actually much less technical than I thought it would be. It was mostly questions about my past experience and what I'd done and not done. Very informal too.
I still wasn't quite as prepared as I wanted to be for it, but I learned a ton. Answered a few too many questions a little too vaguely, but they did say they should be able to get back to me in ~2 weeks. My follow up email received no response, but we'll see what happens.
Took me two months to get one interview, so I'm just glad I got one at all! Woohoo!
@@BlueCliff72 great job! I think one thing that can be taken away from interviews in general is that no matter what happens, whether you get the job or not, you’re able to learn how to be better for the next one. That’s why it’s important to ask the interviewers themselves questions like “What are you looking for in successful applicants” at the end of the interview (if they ever give you an “ask your own questions” portion)
@@drewmiguel7531 That's absolutely true! Honestly, if that interview doesn't turn into anything, I feel like that will end up being one of the most informative parts of my job search. And I did get in a few questions for them at the end, but I also came up with better ones after the fact. Still was good though
The last part though lol
This is the way it is in all highly technical jobs. They get so many unqualified people applying dishonestly, they put each candidate through a gauntlet. What you showed used to be the "phone interview" phase, where they eliminate people that aren't even close to qualified. The interview with several people will have each of them evaluating a particular aspect of your skills, with at least one of them evaluating your interpersonal skills, usually a human resources person. There will probably be four other candidates, you all rotate through the interviewers.
yup, okay, i'm actually taking notes
Haha
OMG so relatable 😂😂
Very accurate
Actually hollow rod rolls down slower because it has greater moment of inertia