like the fact that getting a job without internship experience can be difficult but he's using a lot of single data points.
Things are different here in the UK than where I'm guessing he is in the USA but this is actually advice I give to all my students. Any experience from a full 12 month sandwich placement all the way down to a couple of days shadowing an engineer will all help.
He takes this in the most negative light "You can't get a job without interning" (which isn't true anyway) when it should be "Interning is a great way of gaining relevant experience and finding out what it's really like to be an engineer."
He's using himself as an example, saying he's making over 100k a year which is clearly not the case for the vast majorty of youtubers.
Exactly, "I won the lottery so spend all your money on scratchoffs". Terrible advice for average students.
He also uses an example of an engineer who hasn't had an engineering job 5 years after graduating. The simple fact of the matter is that not everyone will be able to get an engineering job with an engineering degree
Again, differences in the UK and USA but here the majority of graduates with a "good" degree grade get a job within 6 months. 5 years is a huge outlier and as you say, probably shows that they were not a good candidate or absolutely suck at applications.
A quick search shows that employment rates for US engineering graduates are absurdly good further suggesting that this guy is a shitty applicant.
The exact same is true for me and probably a lot of engineers - once I hit about 1 year of experience, I started getting shit loads of messages.
Yep, it's pretty irritating at this point. That he sees this as being unique to him shows exactly what a know-nothing he is.
Lastly, if he's "not using any of his degree" then he must have done a very, very narrow degree.
Huge pet peeve of mine. I spend hours talking about 'transferable skills' but most students just want to learn physics and assume anything else is a waste of time. Then when they graduate and can't give a presentation or manage their time to save their life they act like we didn't teach them...