The Hiring Process for Engineers in Tech

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I’ve worked at 7 start-ups and 2 big tech companies over the last few years, and I’ve interviewed with many more and I’m going to share what the hiring process in tech is like. Every company in tech takes a lot of inspiration from THE big tech companies like Apple and Google when it comes to their hiring process, but they’ll add their own little spin on it. The overall hiring process is broken into 5 steps:
00:00 Intro
00:54 The Overall Process
04:03 Step 1: Recruiter Screening
07:39 Step 2 & 3: Technical Interviews
12:42 Step 4: Engineering Design Challenge
15:23 Step 5: Interview Panel
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My name is Tamer Shaheen, and I am a recent mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo, currently working as a Mechanical Design Engineer. I like to make videos about university/college, engineering, and personal development. Thank you so much for watching!

[@nestorv7627]

If you're wondering about how to figure out which sphere was hollow, just place both spheres atop an incline ramp and let them roll to the bottom (without slipping). The hollow sphere will come last. Both spheres start with the same graviational potential energy, mgh, and we know that all this energy is converted into rotational and translational kinetic energy. The hollow sphere takes more energy to rotate around its center because all of its mass is distributed on its surface, and moment of inertia is proportional to the square distance of each mass component. Therefore, the hollow sphere will use more of its energy trying to rotate and less energy into translational motion, making it reach the bottom of the ramp last.

[@hermnkiel1080]

Coupd you also do a drop test, compare how they react when it hits the ground?

[@sushenkolakaleti1042]

Hey man, I know you’re into tech companies and the startup community, but why not try automotive? Great number of fulfilling jobs in mechanical design engineering, and a lot of innovation on the horizon!

[@K1NG_GTR35]

Even mining, oil&gas, construction

[@user-nf3jr3wl9v]

Right he always going for Apple, google and dumb meta. They don’t even care for people

[@astanakazakhstan3220]

Ah yes autosar, how exciting

[@bobbygonzalez2496]

​@K1NG_GTR35 yea I agree. He should go for some sort of automotive, energy, or construction job. Some of those jobs can pay well (good enough) and be fulfilling.

[@K1NG_GTR35]

@@bobbygonzalez2496 yeh. Real mechanical sectors haha

[@HBQ]

Your videos are some of the most informative I’ve found for engineers on KZbin! Thanks for sharing all this and talking about your experience so honestly. Appreciate it a lot!

[@sasikumarannandakumar6148]

Amazing video as usual Tamer! You described all the struggles and quirks of each interview round very well. I was able to truly relate from my experience with the hiring process at Tech companies.

[@LAESA1]

24 yr old sophomore mech engineering student here, this all sounds really intimidating, challenging, and discouraging lol. Thank you for providing value :)

[@murtazaqadeer7610]

Love your videos man great advice for me in future in engineering

[@tarasaurus24]

5 interviews for a mechanical engineering job is beyond insane tech companies have to have some serious lack of peoples skills to have to do 5 interviews

[@momodoescow7582]

As a guy going into Waterloo Engineering next year, been binging your vids recently, W stuff

[@walterspencer7524]

The honesty is always nice to hear.

[@andrebarrett4112]

You should make a part 2 to this video where you go over the onboarding process once you get hired.

[@BondoMalick]

Very helpful,and i found the test very drastic,have even had time to think before answering to their questions?

[@jossefyoucef4977]

I love how down to earth and real your videos are Tamer, you are an inspiration!

[@madlad1.]

He plugged temu 😭

[@williamneidecker-gonzales]

My theory on why the hex sockets are the standard is that it allows more angles to turn a screw in a tight space. You can rotate every 60 degrees, vs a triangle socket would only allow you to reinsert every 180 degrees

[@aidan6557]

U mean a flat head screwdriver only allows for 180 right?

[@user-rc7je9fh5i]

Do you guys that side also have to wait for 3-4 years experience in order to be a professional engineer upon graduation?

[@phillipgoat00]

Recentaly I went to an interview for a company that I didn't really care about. it was more like a practice to me. Process was nice and an engineer did the interview which was great. Problem for them is that I am currently working for another company and they needed someone right away. So they said that I was disqualified because of that? wut. This is the second time this happens, they want somebody that is not working? haha. that makes no sense but whatever

[@marieazrak1951]

Do you know Charles or Rony Azrak

[@emmanuelkasongo9116]

Apart from linkedIn where eelse can we get job ads

[@shatakshipandey8014]

Newspapers

[@funguy2627]

How u so chill after getting abused by these companies.

[@Occ881]

Imagine Being ghosted after 9 houra of an interview OMG😢

[@beachboardfan9544]

Any interview longer than an hour should be paid time...

[@Dani-wg9uu]

Why you got so big dark circles 😮

[@nishalangovender]

So funny hearing the Afrikaans accent in the muffled interviewers voice

[@rakanahmed7485]

Tamer, are u Egyptian?

[@neveroddnoreven1553]

Give those recruiters another job! They can't even speak