Welcome to Microsoft By Charlotte Wang - An Intern's Experience
So? My job as the Associate Business Analyst isn’t as boring as the title sound. The work at Microsoft Canada is absolutely independent and YOU, you are responsible for what you do. When there are issues, you find a solution. But when you making an impact, the credit is all YOURS. This is the culture that we embrace, and as a university student, it is one of the most remarkable experiences that will stay on my resume – my Microsoft Internship experience.
Monday January 24, 2010
08:50 Arrive @ Mississauga office, after one full hour of driving. IT’S FREEZING and I hate the snow > : [
09:00 Breakfast time! Eggo sandwich down at café? Or should I just go for an apple and banana? Oh no wait I need to start refreshing the reports first. Remote Desktop into the Server…
09:15 Okay…Reports are refreshing. Perfect. Now munching my breakfast and looking at my excels. God, please allow me to have one peaceful day. I love my computer and excel.
10:30 Catching up with my neighbour co-ops about the weekend…seems like we all had a great time and are well rested for another week of productive work ; ]
11:00 Talking to controller...New assignment for this week, seems like down times aren’t really down! Finance is always busy. ALWAYS.
11:59 Instant Message received from co-op: Shall we grab lunch? Soonish? Sure…soonish. Just let me finish up this formula and it should work…
12:10 Let’s head down! Hmm what’s today’s special down at café? Or should I just get the Buffalo Chicken Wrap that our office is famous for? Tough Choices…
12:50 Done and done. Heading back up to my cubicle and begin my afternoon duties. Let’s just continue with my report construction…
2:25 Meeting in 5 minutes! Quickly grabbing all my materials and I am ready to present my reports!
3:15 Meeting’s over, managers happy with the results, just need to fix up some formatting to match with the corporate worldwide standards…washroom and drinks break…ha! The other co-op thought that colleague of hers is cute :P really? Maybe!
4:10 50 minutes till the end of the day! So far all my reports have been good, my computer is treating me well…so let’s just bear with me for the remaining few minutes and I am ready to head home!!
5:10 Wohoo! Another day killed! Seems like the day was productive, my excel queries were successful, and I look forward to tomorrow’s synch meeting with my managers! Alright this is the part that I do not look forward…1.5 hour traffic jam. Why can’t we just build more highways?! Oh well! At least I get to go home and relax!