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r/
AskEngineers
Engineers apply the knowledge of math & science to design and manufacture maintainable systems used to solve specific problems. AskEngineers is a forum for questions about the technologies, standards, and processes used to design & build these systems, as well as for questions about the engineering profession and its many disciplines.
Subscribers
2.7M
Active users
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Category
career
Refreshed
1 day ago
Coverage score
2 / 4 evidence checks passed
Can you post here?
Thin data
Directional only
We do not yet have enough data to make a clean recommendation here.
Posting gates
- Min karma
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- Account age (days)
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- Submission type
- self
- NSFW
- No
Brands winning here
When cited Reddit discussions from AskEngineers show up in our LLM-observation dataset, these brands appear most often.
1. SOLIDWORKS
64
2. SpaceX
34
3. Microsoft
24
4. Microsoft 365
24
5. CATIA
23
6. Mitutoyo
22
7. PTC Creo
22
8. Google
20
Based on 598 observed brand mentions across all indexed citation history. Rankings prioritize the last 30 days. Last updated Apr 20, 2026.
See the broader citation datasetActivity
A simple read on whether the subreddit is accelerating, stable, or contracting in recent observed data.
We do not yet have enough observed activity to describe how this subreddit is trending.
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