I'm a part of the AMC(Association for Computing Machinery), basiclly a Computer Science and Math club. This Friday we took a trip to Redmon(Where the HQ of Microsoft is, about 5 hours away. We got there, slept on a church floor. Saturday morning we head over to Microsoft for some Q&A time, a tour, and to make contacts. I went because I thought it would be fun, although I did not like the idea of me working at a large company. I wanted to work at a small one. We had 2 panels, 8-7 people each time, for us to ask questions about basicly anything. THe first panel was newbies, people working less than 5 years, where the second were the OGS, all who worked there no less than 10 years. Each question we asked made me grow fonder of working there more and more. Also I had been planning on doing an internship my Senior summer. They all stressed how great internships are and how it will help, making me choose to hopefully intern at a small company next summer, then Microsoft, or even Google(
I really don't want to work there for many reasons, including the companies future, or highly possible lack-there-of) or eBay, the summer after. We were supposed to ask them questions for 1.5-2 hours, but we asked them about 2.5 hours(It flew by). It was great during lunch to talk to them all and get to know them all better, and hear some more intiment thoughts and what they do. After both panels we took a tour all around. That was alot of fun. My prof used to work at Microsoft and the two people taking us around he worked with(Hired one who then eventually became his boss sorta, and a guy he worked closely with). It was fun hearing stories of everything and what they did. Then we just hung out with a few of the people, talking and playing foosball(A very very big thing at Microsoft to take off the stress. They all are really good).
Some pictures.
A five foot tall detailed box of Visual Studio 2005(A program to code) where all the people who worked on it signed. I found it cool.
A funny(I thought) sign in their bathroom.
Bad picture of a testing room with about 100+ computers running.
And another
It was alot of fun learning so much about people that work there and what they do and like and dislike(They honestly couldn't think of anything they hated, other than stress). It made me want to work there.