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This year, three of the 14 Microsoft internships were offered to students from the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at UWA.
Each year Microsoft offer a number internships to promising students all over the country, giving them the opportunity to work there and get first-hand experience.

Having three internships in 2008, UWA ranks second from all the universities as the University of Queensland was offered six, both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales each received two, and Curtin University, one.

Out of the around 300 applications, 80 people were contacted for phone interviews. From these, 36 were flown to Melbourne for a formal interview and only after this, the 14 internships were awarded.

Congratulations to the new Microsoft interns from UWA: Luke Kim, David Nidorf and Jeffery Palm.

Jeffery left  Perth at the end of November to spend 12 weeks in Redmond, Washington, where he is working with Microsoft's Capes Group on software update technology, gaining hands-on experience with products used by millions of people every day.

Speaking before he left for the US, Jeffery said he was excited by the chance to travel and work overseas. "A friend of mine, Oren, won a Microsoft internship last year and really enjoyed it, so I decided to apply. This is a great opportunity to work with some of the best programmers in the business and see how a company like Microsoft operates. And if they like you, you can receive an offer of full time work with the group where you're placed , which is something I would definitely consider", he said.

He had plenty of advice and travel tips from Oren Nachman, one of our CSSE students, who completed a similar internship last year, spending three months working as a software development engineer in the testing section of the Windows Anti-Malware team.

According to Oren Nachman, "the internship's not just about the overseas trip (which is awesome in itself!), but about spending 12 weeks getting hands on experience working on products that are used daily by millions of people worldwide".

"It was a great experience", said Oren. "Not only did I get to do lots cool technical things like mucking around the Windows source code, but I also learned about what it's like to work in a massive company like Microsoft and how it all fits together, which was very interesting"