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Discussion for college grads interested in learning about careers at Microsoft.
Looking for the Building Windows 8 Blog?
If you’re looking for the Building Windows 8 Blog then see https://blogs.msdn.com/b8. If you’re...
Date: 08/15/2011
Next steps for blogging...
Greetings, I've recently changed jobs at Microsoft and decided that this would be a good time to...
Date: 03/28/2006
Interns -- the intern experience in Office
We’re actively hiring interns from the college campuses we visit. I wanted to use this as an...
Date: 02/23/2006
Heads-up -- check us out at schools all across the US
We're out there visiting a bunch of schools in the next few weeks. At each of these schools you will...
Date: 02/04/2006
Modern PM research techniques
In a comment in the previous post there was a mention of maybe the PM role will go away with the...
Date: 12/19/2005
Thanks Stanford...
I had a great time at Stanford--though it was cold and cloudy :-) :-) Thanks everyone for taking the...
Date: 12/15/2005
Off to Stanford
I will be at Stanford on wednesday the 14th meeting with Develpment and Program Management hires....
Date: 12/14/2005
Ken Morse on advice for graduates
A few weeks ago I was on a panel discussion at Cyberposium 2005. The panel's moderator was Ken...
Date: 12/05/2005
By the way ... Office "12" Beta 1 is live
Just thought I'd let folks know that Office "12" Beta 1 went live today. We're pretty excited about...
Date: 11/17/2005
Release timing and Office products -- how fast is fast enough?
I've been asked quite a bit by people interviewing at Microsoft about "software release". This post...
Date: 11/03/2005
Highlights from Boston recruiting
The past couple of days have been busy with a round of presentations and discussions at MIT, Sloan...
Date: 10/20/2005
This week -- visits to a couple of Boston area colleges
I will be visiting both Harvard and MIT this coming week. I look forward to meeting any students...
Date: 10/16/2005
What do managers do and how big should my team be?
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.Butcher, in Shakespeare's King Henry VI The first...
Date: 09/24/2005
The path to GM -- some thoughts on becoming a general manager
The recruiting season is getting underway and shortly we’ll be “at a college near you” looking to...
Date: 09/19/2005
More about learning from the past -- Office Assistant
The past couple of weeks have been busy as all the interns moved on (yippie we have more parking)...
Date: 09/12/2005
Registration time -- what courses should I take?
As one of the interns was heading off for his final year, we talked about what courses he is taking....
Date: 08/30/2005
Have a great semester and welcome to Microsoft ...
Most of our interns have packed up and headed back to school. Fall semester is always a magical time...
Date: 08/28/2005
congratulations Will -- final project presentation
Today Will, one of our interns from the Boston area did a demo of his summer's project. He did a...
Date: 08/23/2005
Intern culture -- two great video examples
Just wanted to point folks to two great views of intern culture caught on video. On Channel9 you can...
Date: 08/22/2005
Learning as an engineer -- rising from the ashes of failed projects
Recently a senior program manager asked me for some reading suggestions and I wanted to share a book...
Date: 08/19/2005
Intern last days: cool projects and fun photos
The interns are starting to return back to school. We had an amazing group of interns this year from...
Date: 08/14/2005
Oopsie -- anonymous comments turned on
Anonymous comments are now enabled. Sorry about that! --Steven
Date: 08/10/2005
Do you have to be a computer science major to work on Microsoft products? NO you don't.
A potential intern sent me the following question: While my major is computer related, I'm afraid...
Date: 08/08/2005
Tracking code "churn" -- cool intern project
Our interns are wrapping up over the next few weeks. The projects that interns work on are critical...
Date: 08/04/2005
College Hire and Intern Fair (Photos)
Seattle, 7/27 6:30PM Just got back from the annual College Hire and Intern Fair. Every year we hold...
Date: 07/27/2005
Thoughts on the first few years of a new hire at Microsoft
I wanted to write some thoughts on career progression for new hires at Microsoft. Up front I should...
Date: 07/26/2005
One intern's experience at Microsoft
I wanted to share a cool message I got this morning from one of our interns (I deleted the contact...
Date: 07/22/2005
Changing career paths at Microsoft -- short answer
Today I was talking with an intern who was having a good, but not great, summer working on one of...
Date: 07/22/2005
Q&A Session today -- "Fascinating technology"
Today the interns got together and I got to host a q&a session, which is always a highlight of...
Date: 07/21/2005
Office Intern Party 2005
Seattle: July 20, 6:30PM Just got back from our our intern party and Jillian's which is a great...
Date: 07/20/2005
Welcome to TechTalk!
Welcome! One day in graduate school I decided that more school in computer science wasn’t really for...
Date: 07/19/2005