Good Perks, Slow Innovation
Good Perks, Slow Innovation
- Shuttle system all over WA to and from campus made life great.
- Yearly Intern Signature Event + free gift.
- You will be in the company of talented and seasoned engineers.
Most of Microsoft's products are strongly bound to legacy code, which makes them trepidacious about original ideas. I was supposed to make an extension to some auxiliary production software. It took six weeks (halfway through my internship) before I was allowed to write a line of code!
Take this with a grain of salt. At Microsoft, the most important thing is what team you're on. I was not very excited about my particular team's work.
Management is doing a good job of keeping a hulking metal behemoth like Microsoft from grinding to a halt. I wish MS could restructure its dependencies such that it could break more barriers with technology.
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