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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Intern Profile: Jack Hayter- Technical Solutions Professional
Hi, I’m Jack. I’m an intern working at Microsoft as a Technical Solutions Professional. My roll involves helping the sales teams with the deeply technical side of things. My team specializes in the Microsoft Application Platform (SQL Server, BizTalk and Business Intelligence). As an intern, I help my team working on Proof of Concept demonstrations [...]
WW Graduate Profile Sweden: Erik Werner- Technical Account Manager
Hi, I’m Erik Werner and I’ve been working as a Technical Account Manager, or TAM in Microsoft-speak, for Microsoft Premier Support since the beginning of January. This film * explains in under 2 minutes what a TAM does. In short it’s about helping our customers to get the best value for the amount of support [...]
Work Culture at Microsoft
Does Microsoft have a work culture? The answer is very much yes, and a very good culture I must hasten to add. But what IS Microsoft’s work culture? Is it the endless supply of free drinks, the croquet pitch near the lake or the BBQ’s outside in the summer. No, but I would say these [...]
Intern Profile: Mark Holmes- Marketing
Hi, I am Mark. I started my internship in July 2010 in the Server & Tools Business Group, which is part of the marketing department. Now that probably means nothing to you, as it meant nothing to me either when I started! Essentially my team is made up different Product Managers that are each responsible [...]
WW Intern Profile Ireland: David Acheson- Software Development
Hi, I’m David. I am a Software Development Engineer in Test which means I work on developing tools and frameworks to test our website over dozens of languages. I’m helping to drive the quality of our content across the globe. What attracted me to Microsoft was the challenge, like many programming enthusiasts I seek the [...]
Deathbed Theory: meet or exceed expectations
Nothing is certain in life apart from one single event, our death. Whilst I may not have planned my path through life exactly I have spent some time thinking about my final moments. Call it sadistic but I prefer thinking of it as creative. With literally no idea when I can expect to lie on [...]
Fifth Week of Internship: Microsoft Singapore
Time flies by so fast and now we are already in our 5thweek with Microsoft. There has been some changes happened within past two weeks. First thing is that we all moved to the new floor after struggling finding our hot seats almost every day. Finally we got the room for ourselves! Besides, the environment [...]
What is the Singapore MACH program?
The Microsoft intern to MACH program is a 2 to 3 month experience for full-time students currently in either an undergraduate or post-graduate course. Our program is MACH intern for SE Asia, all program participants will work on meaningful projects at Regional Headquarter during summer internship to build tangible work experience. We are assigned individual [...]
Sixth Week Of Internship: Microsoft Singapore
It is so unbelievable that we’ve already moved our steps to the half way of the program. This is the 6th week of our Microsoft intern life, which is one of the best moment in our life. Everything for us in the company is well settled in already as well. One day, we got an [...]
Seventh week of Internship: Microsoft Singapore
First of all, let me mention to the special part of last week. We met with Ben Porter. Ben Porter is the HR manager, the one who set up this intern-to-MACH program. So you could imagine how excited we were to meet him. Ben flew from Australia and had a quick meeting with us before [...]