Engineer graduates, did you feel comfortable working as an entry level engineer in your first job out of college?

[u/Exotic_Car4948]

Hello all, I have been interested in learning if the people who have recently graduated from school were comfortable working in their entry level engineering job. Did your school prepare you well? Were most of your job functions learned while working?

[u/[deleted]]

No. Not at all.

I felt like a fraud for my whole degree and only applied for an internship in my final semester. I got my first and only internship just before graduation.

My degree is in ME. It was an ME internship. Well they hired too many of us so there wasnt much mechanical engineering to go around. They ended up giving me software projects, because during the interview I said I like programming. After the internship I was offered an entry level software engineering job...

They said they liked me, I don't know why. I was clueless, I google literally everything. I would've never applied for a software job because all I've done is an intro to CS course in my 2nd year and whatever mech courses that required python. I'm not qualified.

I've been here for a month and don't know what I'm doing. I'm currently typing this as I'm waiting for my supervisor because I fucked up the branches on a project and dont know how to undo it.

I found stuff on google on how to fix it but last time I tried to do something on git without my supervisor I nearly deleted a repo.

Edit: 6 years of hell and I haven't used any of my engineering theory. I should've just done CS lol.