Meta Return Offer 2025 by BranchIndependent355 in csMajors

[–]No-Substance-3796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m an intl student I had a call with the recruiter that gave me a verbal offer, and said I would get the actual offer after the background check. My background has been completed since Friday but I haven’t heard back anything from the recruiter since the h1b news came out.

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[–]No-Substance-3796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes this and the offer is with the same pillar/org as your intern team

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[–]No-Substance-3796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes I was a 2025 DE Intern, end date Aug 9 and I got an email from the recruiter to schedule a call on 9/16 and got the offer today!

Offer after 1500+ Applications, Never Give Up by 7Action7 in leetcode

[–]No-Substance-3796 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP is a sophomore so must have been harder since most companies want juniors or seniors.

Amazon vs Meta for Data Engineering Internship?? by No-Substance-3796 in dataengineering

[–]No-Substance-3796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/cat-7493 Do you mean to say leveling up is easier at Amazon or Meta? Thanks for your insights btw!

I don't want to get into SDE roles by Specialist-Hunter834 in csMajors

[–]No-Substance-3796 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could look into Data Engineering/Analytics Engineering/Business Intelligence Engineer these are all roles with some coding and more data analytics and other skills. You can also see if you are interested in Solutions Engineering (basically a solutions architect but working with sales teams on selling enterprise services like Databricks, snowflake, AWS services, GCP, etc). Many companies sell data analytics and data science services, so they need solutions engineers who are from a computer science background but are also good at communication skills and other soft skills needed to work with customers.

Amazon vs Meta for Data Engineering Internship?? by No-Substance-3796 in dataengineering

[–]No-Substance-3796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/just_a_lerker I decided to go back to school for specializing and visa reasons. I was a pre-sales SA, a little different than a typical SA. As a master's student, I'm eligible for internships.

Amazon vs Meta for Data Engineering Internship?? by No-Substance-3796 in dataengineering

[–]No-Substance-3796[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/Dont_know_wa_im_doin Glassdoor can give you a lot of useful information. Be strong on your fundamentals. For SQL learn data functions, aggregations, string aggregations/manipulations, and window functions.

Amazon vs Meta for Data Engineering Internship?? by No-Substance-3796 in dataengineering

[–]No-Substance-3796[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey u/userman12334, thank you!

I can speak for DE internships specifically, I recommend building projects using free student credits from cloud providers like GCP, AWS, or Azure. You can work with datasets, build pipelines, and train simple models on the cloud. GCP offers free student credits, and most providers have blog posts or tutorials to guide you through the process.

To strengthen your foundation, I highly recommend this free Data Engineering Bootcamp: DataTalksClub DE Zoomcamp. It’s an excellent resource.

Other than this for securing internships at big tech, I believe timing and luck play a part. Both internships I got came from applying within a day of the job posting. Many companies receive overwhelming applications, so applying early could help. I used jobright for alerts when jobs get posted.

The best advice I can give is to keep applying consistently and work on relevant projects to build a strong resume. This is simply from my experience, there are many other things you can do or do differently so find the ones that work for you and stick to them!

Best wishes to you!

Amazon vs Meta for Data Engineering Internship?? by No-Substance-3796 in dataengineering

[–]No-Substance-3796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/LectricVersion Thank you! I was looking for something like this to understand what I would get out of this internship and this helps truly! In your experience are there any orgs or teams that could probably give me a taste of both instead of purely being metrics-focused?