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The Internship That Students Drool Over
selan writes "The Baltimore Sun has a feature on Microsoft's internship program and why it is so popular with college students. Not only are interns paid, but they also receive the same perks as other Microsoft employees. At the end of the summer they are treated to a catered barbecue at Bill Gates's house and have a good shot at a full time job after graduation. You do not know the power of the Dark Side."
do they provide the equipment required for the job ?
I wonder if Monica Lewinsky will be applying for this internship. After all, it doesn't seem to suck.
Not if they are weasel internships, where you get to be a weasel if they hire you full time. Those are free internships, because they are designed by weasels, for weasels. If you were interning for a non-weasel company, they would pay you almost as much as a full time employee. But you wouldn't get much more when you were hired.
At Microsoft, you get to do practically nothing once you're hired, except move goal posts. You can also be a safety conscious employee. There is also the next forty versions of windows after the next thirty they already have done to work on. Working on a new version of Windows usually means making some bugs and then taking a few years to fix them. It's not that hard -- expecially when you made the bugs to begin with.
Back to internship. You don't have to be paid because the job pays for itself!
Or was that Jacko?
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Keep it Wrinkled, boys.
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!
For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.
As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one.
Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.
They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!
And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.
That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.
Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq.
Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated themselves.
Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr Bush to eliminate all Muslims?
It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe until I've wiped them all out.
My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up.
Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come.
It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.
They love being part of an org that's in the forefront of technology
Well, that's the funniest thing I've heard all day! It would certainly be +1 funny for you, if I had mod points.
At Michigan, just about every minority computer engineering student was a Microsoft intern. Yet when I went out to interview for a full-time job there was not a single minority student out there. Microsoft uses their internship program to boost their diversity numbers.
I went to Seattle to interview with Mircosoft in 1998. Most of my interview process consisted of games and puzzles -- so get yourself a stack of mind puzzle books, and read them. Then, during the interview, instead of shouting out the answer immediately, pretend to think for about 30 seconds, while contorting your face. Shout out Eureka!, and give the answer. It worked for me; they made me an offer a few weeks later. They didn't give me much time to decide, which helped contribute to me turning them down, but I digress...
at any rate, I flew in, rented myself a Mazda 626 convertible, and immediately went to the Kingdome. The Mariners now play baseball elsewhere, but I digress again.
I bought a $75 ticket for the game, about five $5 beers, and plenty of food. I got reciepts for all of it, and included it in my expense report. Sure, $110 is nothing for Microsoft, but it sure was fun to watch a game in style on their dime.
In short, if you go to Seattle on an interview, treat yourself well, and review mental exercise books. Go do some things, and expense them. They'll fork over the loot. Pretend to figure out the answers to their questions on the fly, even if you already knew the answer.
After all of this, turn them down -- for you know that, in the overall scheme of things, it just isn't worth it.
Support a few technologists in Washington.
1. Tell everyone you moved out of your mom's basement, when really you just put up wallpaper.
2. Start a make-believe IT company that you are the CEO of. A name like ShizzyCOM will work well.
3. Post to slashdot!
(#4 should be "get a life" but I doubt you know how to do that...)
Here is a company that has $billions to burn and spares no effort on hiring raw talents, but where is the results of all those smart people?
Let's face it, the beast is a bully and copycat, or just throw cash at anything that can't be acquired otherwise. As we all know, DOS was bought (from Bill's friend for $50,000), so was Visual Basic. Earlier versions of Windows are nothing more than half-baked copies of Mac OS, much like C# to Java. Tablet PC is really not that much better than Apple Newton introduced 10 years ago except for more powerful hardware, and the hand writing recognition software appears to be less usable than that of Newton. Every Mac has come with voice recognition since about 15 years ago, and where is the MS voice recognition technology that Bill has been talking about for so many years?
There is still a shortage of REAL developers.
Nonsense. You'd never see someone saying "There is still a shortage of REAL ditch diggers". It's sad that programming has become so elitist. So that only the cerebral hitler youth are allowed to do it.
If being a "REAL developer" means having a 200 IQ, then you're excluding about 99.99% of the human population. The world needs capable programmers more than it needs "real" programmers.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
I recommend people considering a position such as this watch the movie Antitrust.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
thank you AssFace, that was an insightful posting.
why run from Vincenzo?