Microsoft in Seattle, week 3 and 4!

Hello Rossers!


It has been two weeks since my last post and Seattle is sunnier now (but won't enter into "real" summer until July or such have I been told).


These two weeks have been much better than the first two, I have felt like I have been collaborating into my team, my manager is asking my opinion and she cares about what I say and we are both managing the agency. We have finally got the agency to go the way we want after we draw our ideas in a powerpoint and showed them what we wanted.


I already stated how great my team is and I get confirmation of that every week, when people get together to just have fun (or even a beer during work), when the sun comes out people leave early to take advantage of it. I am going through a reorganization at Microsoft, for a while there were two teams: Product Management and Product Marketing (or Marketing Managers), this July both teams will become one and have a more integrated strategy and way of looking at things, plan strategies and work with engineers and consumers. I will be working with the same manager and in the same team (Hotmail).


I was able to go to a presentation about what Skydrive will come up with, and it was amazing. It is just amazing to see feel how many people you are "touching" when you do anything to a Microsoft product, that was one of my main goals when I applied to Microsoft, work in a company and product that when I made a change to it I will impact hundreds of millions of people and somehow change the way they communicate.


By the way, be careful with the afternoon commute it can take up to 1:15hrs. My advice, if you get a car get two more people to ride with you so you can use the carpool lane (HOV lane) that will take a lot of time off your commuting. Happy hours are great, and are usually planned in Bellevue so you can spend rush hour there.


This week we had an amazing intern event, we had a cooking competition "Iron Chef" style, they took us to a cooking school, divided us into teams and assigned us a Chef. After that we had to cook a three course meal for the judges and for the rest of us. It was amazing, and a nice team building experience. I did the dessert in my team.


I am definitely having fun!


Gabriel.