2 Years...

larsun — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:40:00 GMT

On August 26th, I have been working at Microsoft for 2 years. Actually it is kinda hard to believe that I have been here for so long and so short.

I would have to say it has been a pretty challenging and interesting journey so far to work at Microsoft. First of all, like everyone expected, I have learned so much in the past 2 years. Sometimes when I am talking to co-workers who are my age, we all surprised how far we came. However, the more I learn, the less I felt that I know, it is very frustrating. This is probably what this industry is all about, new technology comes and goes every day (maybe not every day).

After two years, I am glad that I made the desicion to go with MSDN team. Our team has been going through some exciting transformation for our customers, the products that will come out will be every exciting and should give our customer better experience.

Anyway, I just want to come back to update my status as a college hire. It has been great 2 years!

Intro

larsun — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:29:00 GMT

Hi everyone:

This is a delayed introduction for myself, let me get it started quickly.

My name is Larry. I graduated from Northwestern University in June 2002, since then I have been working @ MS on the MSDN Test team as a Software Design Engineer in Test for ... one and half years now... (wow, that's a long time!)

Life in the workplace is dramatically different from attending a college. First of all, the biggest difference is the crowd I am interacting now on daily basis is probably 10-15 years older than me on average; in addition, most of these people are REALLY good at what they are doing and they have a lot of passion for the technology. Secondly, I was once a poor student (not that bad, I had couple jobs while I was in school); but now, living on my own without parents' support and enjoy what I am learning and doing on daily basis (most of the time).

Working right after college in a big company like Microsoft is not a very easy thing. People here expect you to perform and take great responsibility to make a difference in a product. Therefore, a college hire would have a lot of pressure to perform on par with other experienced senior co-workers. This actually to me have a lot of benefits:

- Learn new technology and tools faster
- More satisfaction when getting things done (afterall, many people in the world are using the product)
- Easy access to many industry experts and gurus (yeah, I love this part)
- Great learning environment for any inexperienced person

Anyway, I will stop now. Since I am just taking a little break from work.

Larry's WebLog : College-Hire Life @ Microsoft

2 Years...

Intro