Internship Cover Letter Example
3 min read · Updated May 2026
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Switch styles to previewDear hiring team,
I'm a final-year CS student at Université Lyon 1 looking for a 6-month software engineering internship starting in March. I'm writing because I spent last semester contributing to freeCodeCamp's Spanish React curriculum, and your platform was one of the references I kept coming back to while teaching myself.
On my side projects I've shipped a small SaaS that imports bank statements and categorises transactions with a fine-tuned model — happy to walk through the codebase in an interview. The thing I'd most like to learn at your team is how a real production codebase is reviewed and shipped: most of what I know today is self-taught and I'm ready to be challenged.
I can start anytime between March and June, for 6 months, and I hold an EU passport so no visa work is needed.
Thanks for your time,
Léa Dubois · lea.dubois@example.com
Writing tips
- Name one course, hackathon or open-source contribution that's relevant.
- Explain why this company, not just any company.
- Be explicit about dates, duration and visa status.
- Keep enthusiasm short — proof beats adjectives.
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