Targeting 2025 Summer Top Tech Company's Consistent Interview Pipelines
An article on how I'd target what I consider some of the more "consistent" companies to apply to for this upcoming 2025 summer season.
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Overview
I already have a section in the paid part of my other article of other industries I’d target such as banking, consulting, so on. In addition in another article, I break down per company basis timelines / tips I have for those companies.
For this article, I want to talk about the major players I think will be in this upcoming season (right now is August when writing this and the season for applying starts in September, and interviews from October through December, so who knows if this is correct, but this is my prediction based off of empirical anecdotal datapoints).
Main Companies I’d Target for Consistent Interviews:
There are three main companies I’d be targeting:
Amazon
Meta
Bloomberg
Don’t get me wrong, I definitely think there are other companies you can target such as Capital One, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Cisco, Accenture, Mckinsey, Deloitte, so on… but in terms of great salary + tech culture + consistent interview process, I think the three I listed have the best shot.
Note:
I am not saying not to apply to more companies!! I am just saying, these three in particular, I’d be trying really hard to get an interview process started, b/c I believe that the data points suggest that you could probably get one to all three of the companies to give you an interview, and which ever do, or if all do, their process is relatively consistent and tame to try to convert into an offer.
Amazon
Amazon tends to process OAs in batches, meaning that when you apply, they tend to send out batches of OAs in October, November, December. So don’t be worried if you see a bunch of people get OAs but you didn’t. You can always use my tips in the other article to have two running applications though potentially.
I’d only do the second app, maybe if it is mid-October / late October and you see a bunch of people getting it, but you don’t.
What this means though is that once you get the OA, as long as you can pass it you can pretty much get to the next stage which is a final round, which tends to be a lower medium to medium leetcode question. Even easy leetcode questions, I’ve seen given. And for an intern, it’s only one question, often making this one the easiest FAANGs to consistently get.
Meta
Here is the tricky thing about Meta, most of the time, you can apply and not hear back. But I’ve found over the years that if you find a first-point-of-contact recruiter with Meta, who is responsive, you usually have a 70% to 80% chance to get through. I’ve had some mentees be unlucky and get ghosted, so don’t get me wrong, it’s not a 100% chance, but there is definitely a very substantial portion of people I recommend to cold email who do get the interview. I personally would apply, then wait, and then would start targeting cold emailing for Meta around October 15th through December.
Meta can be a bit inconsistent with when they begin their interview process, but if you see data points of people getting into final round interviews then I think it’s a good time to start cold emailing.
Interns only have 1 technical round for their final, where you need to solve two problems. Where new grads is more intense where each you can have 2-3 technical rounds (each round with 2 questions) + 1 behavioral. But if you are solid at solving problems, it’s a great company to get an offer from.
Preparation Tips for Meta:
Bloomberg
Bloomberg is definitely a more consistent one to get. The way I’d approach this is reach out to a recruiter for student processing on Linkedin (I don’t know who that is, but if you can figure out that is great), or cold email them also great. I’d do this in October through December too.
Same thing with Meta, cross check data points to see if there is a substantial amount of people getting into the final round with Bloomberg.
Do note that Bloomberg for interns / new grads is all 3 technical rounds + hiring manager, so you can’t go in unprepared.
This also means, that if you are debating to apply as an intern vs a new grad, it won’t matter, so might as well just do as new grad.
Thankfully all their questions tend to be about medium leetcode questions, so nothing crazy and much less intense than Meta.
The Bloomberg emails I have is not necessarily updated, but worth a try, and also potentially reaching out to people who are in the process or got the offer from Bloomberg who are willing to share.
Bloomberg about 1 or 2 years ago, was mainly only looking at other top FAANGs in my opinion, or people with more experience, but usually they are more open to take anyone for internship / new grad who is a student. I think just during the economic downturn during the last 1-2 years, they were a lot more careful, but before that I had seem them have way more openings and hiring across the board and spectrum. I feel is changing cause I know a couple people with varying degrees of background who have gotten Bloomberg new grad this past year.
Love this, definitely will return back once I talk to some amazon and Meta recruiters :]
Super insightful!