Company: Microsoft
Date: 2020-12-18
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Provided a seamless internship experience even during COVID19 times
Pros: Okay.

..... okay.

I am going to explain, right now, why a work from home internship I did at Microsoft India during Corona-Quarantine times has been one of the single best and most important experiences of my life as an aspiring SDE.

This isn’t the first time I have tried. There are a half-dozen half-finished Word documents on my laptop, all of them abandoned at some point because I felt like I was failing to express myself. I mean, there’s a lot at stake here. My devotion to the company and what it represents has been such that, despite being a huge linux advocate for most of my coding life, I found myself shifting to everything Microsoft, from browser to IDE to Dev environment, in the last 8 weeks. I have witnessed (in a very virtual first hand fashion) MS software design philosophy, have interacted with its global workforce and experienced its culture. I have seen the massive organisational wheel in action, and witnessed how every single employee plays a part in the system, a system where despite being an intern, you can make a tangible impact with just a laptop and some passion.

But enough is enough. The more I procrastinate about writing this, the hazier my memory will be and the less I’ll do the experience justice. So here I go. This article will be in three parts. Which is a bit pretentious, but it can’t be helped, for it’s the only way to show you what this experience showed me.

You ready? I’m not ready. Okay let’s do this.
Cons: Nothing much, honestly. The work culture at MSFT is brilliant.