The Secret Sauce
A collection of high-quality, proprietary resources we have developed specifically for mechanical engineering recruiting.
We have collectively done 11 recruiting cycles over the past 5 years, receiving offers from Apple, Tesla, SpaceX, Meta, Anduril, Relativity, NASA, Joby, and beyond.
We wrote about our strategies here on hardwareishard.net, but never released the “secret sauce” until now. We are finally done recruiting and it is time to reveal our keys to success.
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One of the best ways to prepare for a technical interview is to create a cheat sheet. It is a one-page summary of all of the most important concepts and formulas.
We recommend you review: Statics, Materials, Thermal Dynamics, Manufacturing, Heat Transfer, and Fastening Methods.
We do this every recruiting season. The awesome thing is that the sheet grows every year as we learn more!
We compiled the best of the cheat sheets we’ve seen and made over the last recruiting cycle into a comprehensive, one-page review sheet with the information you most commonly need in interviews to help refresh you and give a good example of what you should make for yourself!
This database is foundational to why we set out to make this site.
Do you scrape Glassdoor for technical questions before an interview with a company in the hopes of eeking out that tiny competitive edge? Trust us, we’ve been there. That’s why we decided there has to be a better way:
Over the last 5 years, we’ve built a massive database of high quality interview questions at top tech companies. Filter by company, position, question type, or keyword!
Everyone knows about Google or Apple. But, if you are a freshman, sophomore, or just don’t have a lot in the experience department, these big companies might be out of reach.
What other companies exist?
We have put together a database of more than 500 hardware companies of varying sizes (Startups -> Public Companies).
Use our database to find companies to apply to for internships!
Search by location (where can you live for cheap . . . aka . . . maybe near home?)
Search by company size (do you want to work at a startup?)
Search by industry (are you super passionate about aerospace?)