Did you ever want to work at one of the biggest companies in the world, where the changes you make have an impact on millions of users? Have you ever wondered what it is like to be an intern or working student at Google, Microsoft or Amazon? Are you thinking about applying? This is the session for you! We invited three students who have interned or worked as working student at these companies and will share their experiences and some application tips with you. Afterwards, there is more than enough time to ask them anything. See you there!

1. Student Placements @
Google, Microsoft & Amazon
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed here are those of the
owners and do not necessarily reflect their companies.

2. Introduction
Viviana Sutedjo Benedikt Mayer Liangda Wang
● CS at TUM and Medicine at
LMU
● 3rd time interning at Google
● Flutter Freelancer
● Bouldering, making music
● Master Information Systems
at TUM
● AWS SDE working student
● Ex-SAP, ex-P&G
● Traveling, gaming, cooking
● Informatics (M.Sc.) at LMU
● Machine Learning Engineer
at Machine Learning Reply
● Former Working Student at
Microsoft, Intel, Siemens,
LMU, UniBW
● D&D, cooking, gardening

3. 1. Apply on
https://careers.microsoft.com/
2. Most interns: Pass
assessment center, HR and
technical interviews
3. Most are direct matches
Good to know:
● A lot of positions are salesy
● Most technical positions
require prior experience
● Hiring happens throughout the
year, alerts are your friend
Application
1. Apply on
https://careers.google.com/
2. Pass Coding Interviews (+
coding challenge?)
3. Intern Matching phase
Tips:
● Focus on a strong CV
● Interviews are totally doable,
don’t stress yourself out
● The recruiters, hosts and
interviewers are only people
1. Apply on
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/
2. Pass Interviews
3. Matched a team (direct hiring
possible)
Notes:
● Intern positions could open all
the year -> check frequently
or set alerts
● Part-time working student role
in few teams possible
● Common intern tech roles:
SDE, SysDE, Solution
Architect, Applied Scientist

4. MTC Software Engineering Working
Student:
● HR interview: Conflict
resolution and representing
the company are important
Tips:
● Show your experience
● Most positions are client
facing, show excitement!
● Know about Microsoft’s
products (Azure,
Dynamics365, Microsoft365)
Interview
SWE Internship:
2 coding interviews
Research internship:
1 coding + 2 research (?) interviews
Tip: The result is not necessarily
the most important part
=> Communication and problem
solving!
SDE Internship:
● Optional: online coding
assessment
● 2 interviews: 1 technical + 1
behaviour
Tips:
● Behaviour question based on
Amazon Leadership
Principles: e.g. Dive Deep,
Ownership, Invent & Simplify
● Many teams behind a job
description - express your
interests and preferences!
● AWS Certification beneficial

5. In the Microsoft Technology Center:
● Mainly building demos
● Conducting workshops with
customers
● Interface with technical sales
Technologies (my project):
● Azure (duh)
● Docker
● Python (for data)
● C# (for desktop apps &
servers)
● Javascript (for web servers)
● BonsAI (Reinforcement
Learning)
● HoloLens 2
Project
Generally: Real projects with real
use cases.
SRE more on internal tools, SWE
more on user facing side.
Treated as full time employee in
most respects
Artifacts:
● Project (code)
● Design doc
● Intern presentation
EC2 Enterprise
● SAP on AWS projects
● Automation framework and
web application for SAP
benchmark certification
Technologies I used:
● Java, Python, React, TS
● Hands-on experience &
experiments with lots of AWS
services: EC2, Lambda,
DynamoDB, API Gateway,
CloudWatch etc.

6. ● Great office (especially MTC)
● Delicious pizza in the cantine
● Cool student community 🍰
● Everyone is on a first-name
basis
● You will meet amazing
people, who really want to
support you
● Sales are in 99% of peoples
targets
● Pre Corona: Great team
offsites
Culture
● “Googleyness”
● A lot of internal tools...
● No blame culture
● Really fun offices:D
● Amazing intern program
● Everyday is your DAY 1
● LPs are reaaal and exist not
only on walls!
● Working backwards
● Startup culture - bias for
action
● Writing culture -> Design doc
review meeting, PPT unusual

7. It’s really what you make of it!
Technical sales people are really
happy to have engineers at their
side
Microsoft Corp (US) and Germany
are very different - use both to your
advantage
Intern community enables you to
see the bigger picture
Experience
● Good insight into what it is
like to work in a big company
> Perspective
● Imposter syndrome is real!
● Very fun experience, lots of
learning
● Living somewhere else for
three months is cool
● Amazing networking and long
lasting friendships
● During Covid -> work mostly
remote
● Lots of networking
opportunities
○ Intern Circle
○ Intern Coffee Shuffle
○ Mentoring program
● Lots of learning opportunities,
you’re encouraged to get
AWS certification
● Flexibility and fun

8. Depending on the role:
Typically Quarterly evaluation
● Project status
● Demonstration in front of the
team
● Customer and colleague
feedback
Overall tip:
Do good and talk about it!
Intern Evaluation
Mid- and end term evaluation
● Coding
● Communication
● CLs
Mid- and end term evaluation
● Code
● Intern self evaluation and
mentor/manager evaluation
form based on LPs
● Presentation / Live Demo
● Design Doc
● (User documentation)
● (Engineer documentation)
Bar raiser: someone outside your
team

9. Working student positions can
typically be extended indefinitely
A lot of interns stay as working
students
Changing between departments is
encouraged
Full-time positions: Aspire program
Engineering positions:
● Cloud Solution Architect
● Microsoft Consulting Services
● Premier Field Engineer
Return offer
Conversion:
● 6 feedbacks (2 per internship
and 2 from interviews)
● Returning interns typically
don’t have conversion
interviews
Or returning internship
You can return as
● Intern, if graduate after 2022
● Full time, if graduate before
2022
Usually return offers are bounded
to current team, but you can also
choose to switch a team
Contact person:
● SDE Internship - Rafael
Galiani (Tech HR)
● EC2 Enterprise team -
Andreas Schuster or me:D
● Brand Specialist - Minda Qian

10. Q&A

11. Thanks for coming!
See you soon!