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NATASHA’S DIARY: Learning and Challenges

What was your greatest challenge? Someone once said…’ with great power comes great responsibility..’ (Yes that is a quote from Spiderman!), and it couldn’t be more true. Working for Microsoft has opened doors for me that I never knew could be opened, but it then becomes my responsibility to close them. You get given so [...]

I want to be a: TECHNICAL CONSULTANT!

Assessment centres for next years group of technical consultants are about to start. We’ve had a few of this year’s technical consultant interns blog for us over the past few months and wanted to give you a refresher course on what being a technical consultant is all about! Being a technical consultant intern can mean consulting [...]

I want to be in: SALES!

Assessment Centres for next year’s batch of bright Sales interns are about to commence. With that in mind, we wanted to share some insight into what being a Sales intern at Microsoft UK actually involves. A sales internship at Microsoft is quite a departure from what the stereotypical sales roles are – gold watches are [...]

I want to be a: DATA ANALYST!

Microsoft UK will be welcoming a group of budding Data Analysts to Thames Valley Park Campus tomorrow for the Data Analyst Assessment Centre. So we thought we’d give you an idea of what a Data Analyst intern does at Microsoft UK and point you in the direction of a few posts some of this years [...]

NATASHA’S DIARY: What was the application process like?

It’s easy to look back now and think that just because I am lucky enough to have got the job with Microsoft that it was a simple experience… However, sorry to burst anyone’s bubble here, but this definitely wasn’t the case! The first real application process to any job will be one of the hardest [...]

ALEX BIRCH – Software Development Engineer in Test

Hi, my name is Alex Birch. I’m a Software Development Engineer in Test interning at Microsoft Mediaroom. This is a division which concerns itself with television-related ventures, and presently our software powers the TV experience on Xbox (in countries which subscribe to this), and also on set-top boxes (such as BT Vision in the UK). [...]

Intern applications – 2 weeks to deadline

Today marks two weeks to the deadline for applications for Microsoft UK’s Intern program. Microsoft UK accepts around 110 placement students for a 52 week internship every year. These 110 will be spread across the whole company, and as a community will work in all areas of the company, from finance to software development, from human [...]