![]() I nonchalantly gave my resume to someone at the Microsoft booth at a job fair for science majors at my school. I've completed 3 internships at Microsoft (Office, Windows, and Visual Studio) in the summers of '10, '11, and '12, and I will be returning to the Visual Studio group in January as a full time employee. I'm finishing up my BS in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Everyone at MS worth their salt just got a 12% raise in the last couple years, so pretty much no one's going to be quitting anytime soon. Read one or two guides on how to interview with a company that's as big as most religions. Overall, you sound like someone who has no idea what Microsoft even does, and you're faking your enthusiasm because you need a job, any job. Leads ARE promoted from the front-line but above that they mostly just shuffle around from failed project to new project. You climb fast in those places but you really don't want to work there. It's rare to see people work their way up in a significant manner, the exception being products like Silverlight that are so awful that 50% of the people on them quit and transfer every year. Most of the advice you've heard in this thread is bunk. You can read about the 19 or so interviews that it took me to get my job in my AMA. My resume sat on Monster.ca and they grabbed it. I got my job by making competition-winning demoscene entries, homebrew games for the GBA, more hobby projects, lame summer jobs for professors and more hobby projects, then putting together a decent resume about it. three points!īuilding 19 is full of recruiters who throw 50 resumes like yours into the garbage every single hour of every workday. If your resume had a single spelling mistake crumple crumple toss. If you did get an interview, you'd be one of the ones who had to show up in a suit (or a dress, whatever) because for non-engineers, appearance matters. You can't make spelling and grammar mistakes like that. ![]() If you had a job representing MS, YOU WOULD BE REPRESENTING MS. I lost count of your spelling and grammar mistakes at 30+ in this thread. I work At MS right now, have for almost 8 years. I also highly suggest Stephen Toulouse's book " A Microsoft Life." It is a great inside look at Microsoft the corporation. If you want to meet up for a beer or coffee and talk about it one on one PM me. Heck, a year later and I still feel frequently humbled any time I'm on a conference call with senior engineers.ĮDIT - I see you're from Houston. I felt overwhelmed in my first few months, and I had over a decade of experience in my field. There are so many brilliant people working there, that even though you may be the smartest of your friends or the best employee at your previous jobs, it takes a lot of hard work to stand out at a company like Microsoft. ![]() One thing I learned during my early days at Microsoft (I am an Active Directory Premier Field Engineer), is be prepared to be humbled daily. Come up with some ideas or promotions for the store, or anything to get your foot in the door. Also be proactive and visit the store and ask about openings if they don't respond, sometimes a little initiative goes a long way. Starting out at one of their retail stores may be a fantastic opportunity for someone like yourself, submit your resume and see what happens. I do not feel like a vendor or contractor, and with the exception of some legal and additional training stuff I have all the rights of an FTE and am treated as such. Also, many vendors/contractors are eventually hired on full-time so don't fear the orange badge. So, just because you don't get hired as a marketing guru straight out of college doesn't mean you might not end up there. The beauty of Microsoft however is that it is a giant corporation, and they love to promote from within if you are worthy. The only thing their employment gave me was a little insight in to the culture. I have two friends who were hired on 6 and 4 months before me (as blue badges), they just applied at. ![]() Like HanumanCT, I too do not have a college degree.Īs HanumanCT stated, knowing somebody gets you nowhere in Microsoft other than the fact that they get a referral bonus if you get hired. I got my job with Microsoft out of the blue, a headhunter found me randomly on LinkedIn. I am a huge Microsoft fan boy and have worked in enterprise level IT for 12+ years in Houston. I am a Microsoft "orange badge," also known as a vendor or contractor. ![]()
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