It took a Microsoft internship interview...

This past month I flew up to Microsoft to interview for an internship position. In case this whole little start up thing doesn't work out, I'm still working on my backup plan of just entering the work force as a run-of-the-mill programmer.

I finally got a sense of what my true worth is, as a programmer. Being a student here, sometimes I feel lost among the thousands of other students around me. I'm just expected to do my work, turn it in, and then take the tests. It's like I'm coralled around like a cow. So I kinda forget what my true worth is. But not when I went to go interview for Microsoft. Just the fact that I got flown up to Seattle is enough to make me realize how much I'm valued. And that's without them even hiring me yet. Then I got put in this nice hotel room with a kitchen, living room, walk-in closet. It was almost too much for me (almost). They paid for a taxi to drive me around anywhere I wanted to go. And what was all this for? Because they thought I was a good programmer. They thought that what I could produce with my skills will increase their revenue enough that it's worth the investment in me. And that's a good feeling.

They ended up offering me the internship position. I'll be working on something closely related to what I've been doing on my own, actually. So it should be a pretty fun summer.

Tags: Microsoft, internship, interview