Name: What’s It Like To Be A Program Manager Intern At Microsoft? (LIVE with a former Microsoft intern)
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:01:04.000Z
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We have Tana cover here as our guests today.

Okay, so Tana is actually a good friend of mine.

She was also a program manager in town, Microsoft.

And she is currently at the University of British University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

On Ben based format is gonna be First of all, we're gonna begin with about 23 minutes off angry or conversation.

It would be like to be a slash conversation where I'm gonna ask Donna about what she did at Microsoft as an exploring turn on a program manager in turn on what kind of experience he had.

And while her interview experience was like to get into Microsoft on after that, we're gonna do, like, seven minutes off your audience.

You're on a session so we can take your questions.

Um, first of all, Actually, we're, you know, good friends.

We got to know each other through, you know, this project called sound vision.

So maybe you can tell everyone a little bit about the projects that this project called sound vision.

Um so sound vision, Woz and I less up of that transformed three D spatial information into sounds.

Um, pretty much it takes to field division into sound.

It was to help those who are visually impaired navigate unfamiliar environments.

Um, and pretty much used a device and the phone.

The Eriksen Innovation Awards, um, to help the future of city life.

Um, so just to give everyone a little bit of context, it was sort of like a student competition that was held by, you know, this company called Erickson.

You might have heard about it on it was in Sweden on there were, like, 800 teams at the beginning on we were like one of the top four who actually got to go to Sweden.

My first time ever being Europe says, Yeah, I'm like at the end.

We didn't release the product, but like we work to is some, you know, blind and visually impaired people on.

I think, um, was there anything new you learned about, like that particular audience?

Um, just from someone We were making the up.

We did actually write it ourselves so we would actually buy for themselves and walk around the campus.

I think, if anything, I just got on the level of appreciation.

Um, and also a new level of understanding of the importance of accessibility.

Um, so I think that was the biggest learning that I got was except the importance of accessibility in software today.

I think my audio audio was off for a little bit.

So, um, I'm gonna start asking you about you know more about yourself and software development on Microsoft.

So how did you get interested in software development in the first place?

I was put into a programming course because of the other course were available all the time.

And I previously did a little bit of HTML with no pets.

They used to have those, like pages where you customize your profile, I guess.

But then when I wanted to have programming course, I started to like it.

So I continued that offer three years throughout high school, and after that, I went straight into university.

Dick up your science, so that's kind of a background, um, before before, you see, you know, I didn't have any, like, very strong experiences, more just like Jabba the basics of like like declarations of variables of stuff like Nothing bad, intense or extreme.

So I'm I've heard about Neil Pets, but I don't know like too much about how it works.

Yeah, a game where you girl pets and stuff kind of.

It's this old game from, like the two thousand's, where you have a bunch of pets and I guess you grow them.

You also, like, try to make money by playing games.

And I guess the main goal of it was to make money to buy a house, to keep your pets in and buy them clothes like accessories and things like that.

So, yeah, and then with that, people would make like profile pages to, like, highlight their pets and such And that had, like, a lot of like, you could put in your own custom see, assassination to mouth to make it look cooler.

Um, so I was, like, my first experience playing around code because I want to make my page look really cool.

Um, it doesn't really look that cool, but, you know, have a little kid with a lot of colors and everything.

A supposed to basic pain times available.

So you started learning HTML and CSS and maybe a few other things from Neopets, and you're like, I want to learn more about coating.

Um, yeah, well, actually, after that, it kind of dropped off for a bit.

But then when I would put back when I went into programming costs back in his school, it all started coming back.

And I started enjoying here again, and we used to make up Java games in that class.

So I started enjoying like, the u r u ex part of that as well, because it brought back then your pet stays, Um, as well as I just enjoyed the logic and the mathematics behind it while I was in high school, so that's kind of what started my interest.

And then when you went to, you know, the UBC in Vancouver, you immediately choose computer science as your measure.

On dhe eso At some point, you know, you were able to get your first interested Microsoft, I think, as an explorer in turn.

So could you tell everyone a little bit about what kind of experience you had prior to working there?

Um so prior to that, I actually didn't have that much experience.

The Explorer program is for freshman or sophomore, those with without much experience in for science.

So I think the biggest thing that I had was they were looking for interesting career signs.

So more my involvements, rather than, like, concrete things that I've completed, I think because by that point, I didn't I didn't have anything Call keeps on sound vision or anything, but I did that interview, so it was more just like where I was showing my interests of me participating Sound vision, me doing extracurriculars outside of class that showed like my interesting for your size and coding.

Um, as well as you didn't need some knowledge of the instructors.

So I did study off of the cracking the coating interview book.

It was just showing my interest and knowing, like, link lists and a raise and stream manipulation.

Those are the main things from cracking the code book near the beginning of the book.

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