Seattle Chronicles: Week 5 @ Microsoft My fifth week at Microsoft was somewhat challenging. My pod mates and I felt stuck for the first time in my internship. While we dived into the codebase ourselves, there were times when we couldn’t figure out how to solve a problem, both because the issue was not addressed before…

Seattle Chronicle: Week 4 @ Microsoft My fourth week at Microsoft was quite productive. We have finally got our first design iteration approved and delved into implementation. Given that this week was our team's bi-weekly sprint demos, my team and I quickly built the landing page of our feature and integrated the first functionality. On Thursday…

Seattle Chronicles: Week 3 @ Microsoft My pod mates and I spent most of the week attending more brainstorming sessions with our team. We also wrote our PM spec document this week and attended daily scrums with the larger team, where we constantly got feedback on the direction we were taking the project. We were finally…

Seattle Chronicles: Week 2 @ Microsoft My second week at Microsoft was much more work-oriented than the first week, where we mostly did onboarding. I traded in my "Orientation Ostrich" hat for a "Code Crusader" cape, armed with caffeine-fueled brainstorming sessions and a quest to conquer the code and the city. On Tuesday, we met our…

Seattle Chronicles: Week 1 @ Microsoft This summer, I am doing my first big tech internship at Microsoft. For someone who flew halfway across the world for college just about a year and a half ago, this was a massive step for me. …