Microsoft is still hiring interns for this coming Christmas

In such times of the global financial crisis, Microsoft shuffles its internals and is reorganising itself (at the same time saying goodbye to some of its employees). But, business as usual, Microsoft Redmond is still hiring new talent from Australia.

It’s true. Their international recruiting team sent me a flyer about the 3 month SDE/SDET internship at the end of the year. But remember, application closes 22 Jul 09 – that’s less than 3 weeks away!

It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to work for a company of such scale. And note, this is not an internship with Microsoft Australia, it’s with Microsoft in the US! It means you get to go over there, all relocation expenses paid for, etc. It’s worth trying for.

There’ll be a series of interviews involved of course, but even flights to interview site will be paid for. Remember to send your resume to ausrec@microsoft.com.

Microsoft SDE Intern Interview

I’m writing this up using Live Writer on the plane (Note: offline!) as I fly from Melbourne (YMML) back to Sydney (YSSY) after a day of interviews. I say a day, because it involves flying down in the morning and then flying back up in the evening. No, the actual interview didn’t take then entire day.

What can I say? I gave it my best, and enjoyed talking each and every interviewers. Although I didn’t sign an NDA, I can’t (and don’t want to) disclose the interview questions. However, I do want to tell you how the process was.

So it turns out that they interview 3 people at the same time, with 3 different interviewers. So the day of interviews is made up of 3 different interviews, lasting for roughly 30 minutes each. We rotated from one interviewer to another, so that makes 3 × 30 minutes = 1.5 hours.

Overall it was a great experience – not strictly formal, but really technical. The three interviewers today was Carrie (HR), Chris (Testing), and Hugh (Developing). Basically these three interviewers reflected the three positions that we could be interviewed for: SDE, SDET or PM.

Anyway, the position that I’m aiming for is SDE, but I won’t know how I went until next Tuesday – more anxious waiting.

Finally, a word of congrats to everyone whom have made it thus far in the interviews, getting to fly to Microsoft Melbourne paid for by Microsoft. Especially to those from Sydney University: Peter Budd, Liviu Constantinescu, Yan Shvartzshnaider. I didn’t expect to see so many people from Sydney Uni today.

Have I missed anyone?

Update 16 Sep 08. I got in, yay!