Should I be the Microsoft consultant next year on Campus?

ajayjuneja

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Hello Everyone,

So a friend of mine, who is the current MS Student Consultant on campus, asked me to apply to be next year's MS Student Consultant. Well, I wasn't entirely sure if I wanted the position, but I thought it couldn't hurt to apply. I wrote a rather humorous email and got a great response out of it:

Hi Ajay - thanks for this awesome mail -- I'm falling off my chair laughing at parts of it! And sign me up to be part of your army to take over the world, or at least Pittsburgh, with web services. I'm attaching the job description so that you can get the nitty-gritty on the program
-- I'm out of town this week but would love to talk the week of May 6th anytime -- are you around then? Are you in the middle of finals? I can talk the next week if that's better for you.

Revi Sterling


Anyway, so I'll have an interview next week, and I looked over the job description, and there are some nice perks (free laptop for one!). I also can form some great networking contacts with this position, too.

In terms of my own past experience, I've worked at IBM before, and I'm very familiar with all of the competiting technologies to .NET (ie Java/XML based web services); and I'm currently working on one application that is entirely Win32, and another one that is cross-platform (Win32, Linux, & maybe Mac OS X). That latter application is part of a research project I'm currently working on, in the automotive telematics space.

So This is the problem: the majority of the students here in CS and Engineering are very anti-Microsoft. I'm rather OS agnostic, and my house has Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in it.

I'm worried about being labeled an MS whore, and how to effectively penetrate this campus, given the anti-MS sentiment. How can i do this position without being labeled as such?

feedback, please :)
 

gopunk

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i have no idea... i know the guy here, and we pretty much all recognize him as the resident MS whore... in truth, we are just jealous of all the free stuff he gets :D
 

fr

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If the campus is anti-MS, you will have a pretty easy job right?
 

rgwalt

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Dude, just do it. Don't sweat what other people think of you for taking the job. It is advancing you down a potential career path, and you are making contacts. Plus, you get hooked up with free stuff and get paid (I'm assuming you get paid...).

Ryan
 

ajayjuneja

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<< Dude, just do it. Don't sweat what other people think of you for taking the job. It is advancing you down a potential career path, and you are making contacts. Plus, you get hooked up with free stuff and get paid (I'm assuming you get paid...). >>



yes, it pays quite well. And I get a free laptop, lots of free software, and get a good way to network within Microsoft... and I am interested in their Speech Group. (My research project is a voice activated GPS that accepts full NLP input)
 

bizmark

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<< Are you insane ? take the position !!! >>



What she said!! Just do it! F*ck anti-M$ bastards, they can all go work for free while you get the cushy office!

<---Wants to work for Microsoft
 

ajayjuneja

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<<

<< Are you insane ? take the position !!! >>



What she said!! Just do it! F*ck anti-M$ bastards, they can all go work for free while you get the cushy office!

<---Wants to work for Microsoft
>>



Hmm... I see your point. Okay, if I get the job, then I'll take it :)
Wish me luck!
 

nihil

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<< I'm worried about being labeled an MS whore, and how to effectively penetrate this campus, given the anti-MS sentiment. How can i do this position without being labeled as such?

feedback, please :)
>>



sounds like you can't avoid that label, given the circumstances at your school. but why should you care? do what you gotta do, man. f' what they say
 

joohang

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<<

<< Are you insane ? take the position !!! >>



What she said!! Just do it! F*ck anti-M$ bastards, they can all go work for free while you get the cushy office!

<---Wants to work for Microsoft
>>


What they said.


If I found any position like that on MY university campus, I'd so take that.
 

krunk7

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No, doubt...take the position. College is a time for idealism, half the guys that are calling you a MS whore will be working for companies where MS as an iintegral part of their network......if not directly or indirectly for MS itself. When it gets right down to it, everyone works for $$ (or free laptops). That includes all your classmates and Bill Gates too.


Oh and how many of those guys slamming MS have a dual boot on their machines so they can play their favorite video game?
 

ajayjuneja

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<< Oh and how many of those guys slamming MS have a dual boot on their machines so they can play their favorite video game? >>



Almost all of them are dual booting one of Win98/Win2k/WinXP, either for video games or MS office.

I'm pretty sure that I'll just let people think what they want to about me and take the job if I get it. The unix kiddies will soon figure out that they can't make a living without any money.

I won't let the position stop me from using competiting technologies though. I'll still be using Linux, Solaris, and MacOS in addition to windows.

I just have a view of using the best tool for the job, regardless of who makes it.
 

Derango

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<< I won't let the position stop me from using competiting technologies though. I'll still be using Linux, Solaris, and MacOS in addition to windows.

I just have a view of using the best tool for the job, regardless of who makes it.
>>



Thats what you think :) We'll see how your tune changes once you get that free laptop that flashes subliminal messages about how great microsoft products are :)

Just kidding. Take the job! I would kill (not really...but you get my point) for a job like that! Free stuff is always good ;)
 

joohang

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<< Well, my interview is confirmed for next monday, May 6th! Wish me luck! >>


Cool. Good luck!