In case you missed it, recently I was accepted into a Microsoft Internship for 3 months.
We left Perth, Australia on the 23rd of Nov, travelled for around 30 hours and finally got to our apartment in Redmond late on still, the 23rd!
I started New Employee Orientation (NEO) the next morning at 8am which ran day 1 and till noon day 2 when we received our ID cards.
I got one of the Microsoft Prius Shuttles over to my building and met my Manager and Peer Mentor.
So now I’ve just finished my first day on the job here at the Microsoft HQ in Redmond, WA and it was great.
I am in the Server and Tools business division, working on developer tools for Visual Studio Team System.
After having some good talks with my mentor and manager I was introduced to the rest of the people in my team. I set up my machine and added it to the domain. Attended a SCRUM meeting which was primarily focused on quality control of our product. Discussed and decided on the project I will be working on during my internship and wrote up a small “about me” document for the rest of the team.
And true to the Microsoft free drink thing, I went ahead and drank 3 chocolate milks for the afternoon 
So first impressions? The team is awesome, and my manager and mentor are really fun and relaxed who definitely seem to know their stuff. My project looks pretty difficult, but really interesting.
I’ve got high expectations for the rest of the internship.
If you have any questions about Microsoft Internships for Australian students, please leave a comment.
Luke
UWA MSP
