Tips that helped me get Meta 2025 SWE Internship

Hi everyone,

Here are some tips that helped me get a SWE internship at Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park for the summer of 2025.

1. Apply early and with a referral - I applied a couple of hours after the post came out with a referral, and I think it helped me get to the interview phase, considering that I have a non-CS degree, a non-target school, and only two internships at a smaller software company.
2. Use AI to tailor your resume—I used Chatgpt to help me tailor my resume to fit a bunch of keywords that Meta had listed on their application. I think that hitting all those words while also keeping a proper ATS format and having good, structured bullet points helped the recruiter pick it out.
3. I feel GPA does matter (to an extent). Coming from a non-target school and a non-CS background (I'm in engineering), I think having an excellent GPA shows that you are at the top of your school, and it gives companies a signal that they should give you a shot.
4. GRIND GRIND LEETCODE - Just so you know, for interview format, the first round was online standard code signal, followed by one round of LeetCode style questions. I had done about ~600 problems before doing the interview. For the couple of weeks leading up to the interview, I was doing 10-15 Meta-tagged questions a day, and this took up my entire time, and it was hard to balance school with this. Being able to draw out your solutions makes your explanations a lot easier to follow for yourself and the interviewer. I genuinely believe that if I had used AI more effectively, I could have streamlined my learning by being more efficient and asking the right questions to help clarify the problems and get a correct workflow to help understand what algorithms/DS to use and when and just general tricks for solving the problem. I later found this Chrome extension, LeetBuddy, that allows users to draw solutions and ask AI with real-time context on the problem, acting like a personalized AI assistant for each LeetCode problem you do to help you understand the problem and guide you to the correct answer without doing it explicitly. If I had used this during my prep, it would have been much better, and I could have done fewer problems in preparation if I had found out about this earlier.

If you have any questions, feel free to DM!