r/uwaterloo • • Sep 19 '26

Co-op WaterlooWorks Megathread (Winter 2027)

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This thread is for students applying to Winter 2027 co-ops during the Fall 2026 term.

As usual, we're looking for salaries for new postings, or updates to existing salaries, so if you're willing to share, please open up a chat/DM the mod team. Please include the company name, salary, any benefits, the role and the year if possible. I would highly encourage you to submit if you have salaries for non mathematics/CS positions as we are severely lacking in those. We will try updating these ASAP.

The sheet is here: Salaries + Blacklist Spreadsheet

Average Canadian Co-op Earnings (2024)

WaterlooWorks Important Dates

If you have details about interviews, rankings, etc, you can add information to watrank.com for visibility.

If you had a poor experience with a company, you can message the mod team with details and it can be added to the blacklist candidates below. If it's already a candidate, it may be added to the blacklist depending on the severity/consistency of complaints. On the contrary, if you had a good experience with something on the candidates/blacklist, please message the mod team and it may be removed. Candidates will be removed if no more reports are received after a couple terms. Even if something is on the blacklist already if you've had a bad experience let the mod team know, as more reports increase confidence that it is problematic!

Candidates:

  • Console One
  • Lafarge
  • Agentmoon
  • WealthyPlanet
  • Mosaic Transit Group
  • Jobby
  • Aethos Labs
  • Onex Risk Management

Note that reports from submitters with no previous account activity may not be accepted to aid legitimacy.


r/uwaterloo • • Sep 15 '25

Admissions Fall 2026 Admissions Megathread

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This megathread is for prospective frosh and current high school students interested in Waterloo. Ask your questions here.

Please avoid making separate individual posts on the subreddit regarding admissions to prevent the same 10 posts of "can I get into program with x average" or "what are my chances".

RELEVANT ADMISSION INFORMATION

PSA FOR NEW KIDS

ADJUSTMENT FACTORS 2022

ADJUSTMENT FACTORS 2024

COURSES OF PROGRAMS (VERY IMPORTANT LINK!!)

RESOURCES FOR MATURE APPLICANT

Resources for NON-UW TO UW

Fall 2025 Megathread here


r/uwaterloo • • 16h ago

Insanity on Columbia

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Crazy car accident on Columbia. Recorded from my window. Excuse the quality as this is a screen recording from me being on FaceTime lol.

I think the guy getting in the truck previously crawled out of the red car, not 100% sure about that though. Maybe was trying to get away? Evidently he did not. People held him on the ground until police arrived.


r/uwaterloo • • 7h ago

Shitpost If I fail this CS midterm I will just drop out and marry Cobalt the Dinosaur

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Title. I just am tired of looking at so many proposition symbols and doing Davis-Putnam procedure with n variables and thinking about Boolean algebras and Boolean rings and remembering the difference between tautological equivalence and syntactic equivalence. If I fail I will drop out and go marry Cobalt (he is clearly a professor and can thus financially support me) and we can buy a nice house or an apartment in a decent suburb like Burlington or Oakville. I think I deserve a nice life in Burlington or Oakville. I will find a job that is not evil and does not cause suffering and not vibecode solutions to a company that will try to replace minimum wage workers with AI solutions. We can go on nice brunches on Sunday and own tasteful pieces of art and perhaps adopt a human or (we use inclusive or here) dinosaur child. When he gets ragebaited by a first-year honours science student I will be there to comfort him. When I am struggling to fix our mid-range coffee machine he will hand me a screwdriver and tell me it is ok. Yes yes I know he is a dinosaur. The fact we are both male is not an issue. As an ambassador to the science faculty he will be very open-minded. Please, please. I go to this course that is 8:30 AM in the morning every Tuesday and Thursday. I attend tutorial on Friday. I answer the questions that the poor TA asks even though there is a single-digit number of people in the room. I even chuckle whenever the professor puts up a joke on the slideshow and asks why is this joke funny? in red. All I ask is that I pass the midterm or (we use inclusive or here) I marry Cobalt. I would think I deserve it.


r/uwaterloo • • 10h ago

Event Reddit Halloween Party

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Hey everyone;

November 1st, 8pm, STC Basement, start off with some food, drinks, Karaoke, etc, have some fun, and end the night off with a scary movie.

I have seen too many posts asking about making friends lately, and now that im on coop making decent money, I would love to help facilitate the socializing of many. Looking to gage interest for now; if you're interested comment / shoot me a pm and if we hit 15(?) I'll post again and plan it.

Looking forward to meeting all the reddit legends


r/uwaterloo • • 18h ago

I love Waterloo sosoosososo much

190 Upvotes

Genuinely not even trying to joke or anything sorry I didn’t know what flair to use but I love this university so so so so so much and am so grateful to be here. Living alone is the best and I am so glad to be away from all the yelling and my family’s debt problems and just be on my own and focus on myself. I could have a brick fall on my pinky toe and still be happy probably

I absolutely love it here and I love the challenge and I love the difficulty and the headaches and the imposter syndrome from the cracked FAANG internship kids who know python C C++ SQL HTML and more and all about APIs like the back of their hand and grind leetcode hard every day. I am much “worse” than all of them in terms of employment but still I love those people because they all motivate me so much.

Just got 58% on one of my midterms that I barley studied for sadly I need to catch up but holy hell am I grateful and yes it’s not a good grade little less than 20% below class average but again the average person in Waterloo is CRACKED usually and even if not I am so happy I thought I did much worse.

Beyond that, every single time I write a test or quiz or a midterm in this uni, yeah I get sometimes sad when I see results and thought I did better but wow it’s actually so fun to write the assessments. No joke I had the most fun in high school when writing the Euclid and other Waterloo math contests, I did horrible on them but it was so much fun and this feels just like that feeling. I love delta and epsilon proof of limits and I love going through the entire 137 textbook and trying every single question and looking at the examples does this waste time probably but it’s so much fun. Not sure how long this will all last because I’m in 1A and have two more study terms to go (seq 4) but I am so incredibly happy this is so much better than high school where I was always stressed out. I hope everyone is having an amazing day stay blessed and curious!!!!!!!!!


r/uwaterloo • • 13h ago

Photo/Video Columbia Lester Collision

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72 Upvotes

Red sedan and Coinamatic van


r/uwaterloo • • 17h ago

Humour Trapped in QNC!

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126 Upvotes

There is no arrow that leads back up the stairs. I followed the arrows down, and now I've been looping for hours! WHERE IS THE UP ARROW?!


r/uwaterloo • • 8h ago

Join the UWaterloo Reels Club

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High cortisol after midterms? Feeling like you’re super geeked out? Join us on November 6 to join a co-op Reels sesh!

Find out about us on the gram: @uwreelsclub


r/uwaterloo • • 14h ago

Columbia

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r/uwaterloo • • 8h ago

Advice math 135 midterm grades ://

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im sure there's been more posts about this- but this was like my first proper midterm in college and im genuinely disappointed- For assignments W1 to W3 I was scoring in the high 90s cuz well I could do them at my own pace (made very minimal use of AI, genuinely). Even in the first proper quiz, I got an 85% which ensured me that I'm on the right track- and honestly I thought my midterm didn't go bad at all- I was expecting 70 minimum but ended up with a crazy 60.7- im a crazy 11% below the class average which is wildddd because that wasnt the case for the prev quiz and assignments- i did not expect this at all because I'd genuinely studied for it- i do believe that marks were cut for miniscule things but im sure thats how its been graded for everybody- idk if i should request a regrade (idk if there's much scope for an increase, is checking more lenient during regrading or nah?), idk how i should deal w this because im genuinely so mad-- this is especially disappointing because its literally the first one that i got back and this is really not the way i thought it would be- any advice/thoughts?


r/uwaterloo • • 23h ago

Humour Sorry italians…

105 Upvotes

As an indian, I went to a white people restaurant and tried butter chicken and i have never been more culturally offended.
Now i know how the italians feel when we drink lattes in the afternoon or put pineapple on pizza


r/uwaterloo • • 14h ago

looking for friends at uwaterloo 🤩

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hiii!! i'm hoping to meet some new people and make some genuine friendships!! uni has been a bit of a social adjustment, and i'd love to find people to talk to, study with, hang out with, or just send random nonsense to throughout the day lol

i'd especially love to meet people who are also looking to make friends and put effort into getting to know each other!! no pressure to have everything in common— i am very easily fascinated by anything anybody wants to explain or talk about. i’d love to hear about the things you're interested in ! (i get especially excited when i see somebody super passionate about their interests!!)

feel free to comment or message me if you'd like to chat!!


r/uwaterloo • • 13h ago

Math239

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Wtf was that 🤢🤢


r/uwaterloo • • 20h ago

what should i do now

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so recently just got my math135 midterm mark and got 45% but the avg for the midterm was 71%.

the mark breakdown for this class is
quizzes: 44%
midterm: 25%
final: 31%

what should i do in this situation?? i was scoring 95+ on the first three assignments and also got 45% on quiz1. i need at least 60 to take 136.


r/uwaterloo • • 12h ago

stat 333 defer midterm

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the prof has said this midterm is going to be hard. the midterm doesnt get curved right? is it not worth it to short term absence the midterm and the final always gets curved right? im so cooked for this class, trying to strategize.


r/uwaterloo • • 9h ago

can i get into pac while on coop

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on coop term rn but im tryna go to pac, will my watcard work? follow up: will it work with the grt too?


r/uwaterloo • • 15h ago

Advice C++ Interview Tmr and know nothing about C++

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Got a C++ coding interview tomorrow and got the notice today. I don't know anything about C++ since I code in Python, Java and JS. Anyone got advice on what to do? I just started studying this morning


r/uwaterloo • • 16h ago

I'm so FUCKED

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Basically I'm interviewing with a couple of companies and this one company actually told me that I passed all my interviews but then they were like "ye nah we can't offer you an internship because our plans changed" and like WTF DAWG. You should've told me that BEFORE you decided to interview me.

Now I'm hella nervous cuz I only have one other company who could potentially give me an offer and if they fuck me over as well Im literally cooked and I have pull some generational comeback out of my ass to find an internship for next term.

idk why I felt like ranting on reddit, gonna kms


r/uwaterloo • • 22h ago

Discussion Ringing phones during quiz

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Yall I lowk know we all have different wake up times but im certain that we all have a way to schedule our alarms on our phones🫩

So to all of the ppls phone ringing during the M237 quiz at the ripe time of 8:30 am, can yall pls either turn those off or set a schedule for them bc its so distracting.

I swear there was also a person whose phone was ringing for the last 2 minutes of the quiz and didn’t even bother to turn it off. Like i know that its only 2 minutes but it’s the last few minutes where ppl are going over their answers and checking them so we need to focus🫩

(Lowk kinda blame the TAs too for not handling this situation seriously)


r/uwaterloo • • 6h ago

Anyone here doing their PhD in the USA ?

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Had some questions if you could assist a Waterloo undergrad alumni please and thank you.


r/uwaterloo • • 1d ago

What are we even doing anymore

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340 Upvotes

Saw this posted on the southeast side of campus by the ION tracks


r/uwaterloo • • 22h ago

tone down the spray deoderant please

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like holy fuck is it grade 11 again?? a guy walks past me its it like im huffing it straight out the can. it lingered for like 5 minutes after he left.

shower a bit more, deoderant a bit less PLEASE


r/uwaterloo • • 18h ago

Math is whooping my ass

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Yeah so maybe this university thing isn’t for me, my midterms are lowkey making me suicidal 🥹. Well I’m understanding shit it just seems like I’m not understanding fast enough I guess. You know what, we lock in. Office hours and shit. Also if anyone remembers my last post, I got a diagnosis!!! I just started taking meds so I’m hoping that helps. Man I’m only 17 bro I’m too young for this 😭


r/uwaterloo • • 13h ago

Math 249 MT

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How did everyone find the midterm..... maybe I should've started studying more than a day before....