Thread: I may have an interview for a microsoft internship.

Hey guys, my former programming teacher e-mailed me an email from someone who works for Microsoft looking for recommendations from him. Lucky me he selected me as one of those students. So I e-mailed him and am awaiting feedback on whether I'd get an interview. I'm pretty nervous, as I've always been intimidated about really getting a programming job. Mainly nervous that I won't have the skills to actually do the job, but who knows. I'm kind of excited, though if it goes through, it may postpone my graduation for at least two more semesters, but either way it is job experience. Who knows.

Yeah, I only recently heard about MS's Brawl with Linux.

I don't use linux anyway (I would if it worked with my monitor).

I can learn well in a programming environment, I think it's my best place to learn. All my favorite courses have dealt with programming.

Originally Posted by matsp

[And it perhaps isn't the best idea to come in with a Linux Rules T-shirt ;-)]

What about a t-shirt with a pengiun dry humping an obese pig with a windows logo tattood on her ass?

Or that one with the FF fox eating IE? That's a solid winner.

I DO want this internship just fyi

But anyone have any recommendations for what I put on my resume? I know the standard stuff, but should I put things I'm in the process of learning, like OpenGL and Perl and the like? Or should I just stick to what I know.

I don't think a resume is the place to write all the things that you sort of know how to do. That's the one thing anyone looking at a resume hates: guessing how much of it is true or what your real skills are.

But anyone have any recommendations for what I put on my resume? I know the standard stuff, but should I put things I'm in the process of learning, like OpenGL and Perl and the like? Or should I just stick to what I know.

I'd put the stuff you're just starting out with in an "interests" section at the end.

Also, if you have experience in non-Microsoft stuff - say, you run your personal website on Arch Linux using Ruby and your own Apache modules, which you programmed from your iPhone - don't be afraid to list it. Microsoft do see any experience with technology (contrary to popular belief) as a Good Thing.

Good luck!

unfortunately, I've done very little besides "interests" in college. Most of what I've been learning is either in class or on my own time. I haven't implemented it into many full or partial applications. I am worried my Resume will be too empty, but I did get a recommendation which I hear is big, and I know someone else who got their job in a similar situation I am in.

I had an on-site interview for the microsoft internship last week. The questions are not difficult, I guess they may decide whether we fit MS based on how we answer those questions. when you are asked to write some code, they will tell you whether there're bugs in your code or not. Though I've got some "well done", "perfect" in the interviews, I am more than 60% sure that I failed this time because I haven't received any feedback from them yet. As I recalled, I received their congratulations email 3 days later after I pass the phone interview. Can anyone tell me that If you succeed in the last interview, how long will you get the feedback? Will they send me an email if I fail?