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ncm: Well the main problem with me interning with Aspera is I’m not a third year student, I’m in my second year, granted I’m taking classes that a third year student would be taking. I’m also not comfortable with my skills in TCP/IP protocols yet, network programming is a weak area for me that I’m working on currently. If you see a way around this and know of an in on getting an internship with Aspera, you have my full & undivided attention.

On a side note, the feedback I’ve heard from friends here that have done internships with Microsoft have enjoyed it quite a bit. I’ve heard goods and bads all around really. People already in the industry have given negative feedback for the most part about MS, while people younger in the field have given fairly positive responses. Apparently they treat them pretty well.

One of my good friends on the other works at Google and pulled a couple strings to get me an interview with them though that one makes me more anxious for obvious reasons. We’ll see how that goes.

So I’ve been hard at work getting myself an internship with a company, preferrably Microsoft or Google. I’m somewhat anxious about the technical interviews that I’ve heard others speak of. I feel confident in my skills and knowledge as a programmer, I just get a little anxious over these things.

For Google I don’t quite know yet what I’d be doing but I suspect if I’m asked I would say ask for something in the data-mining or search optimization areas. I’ve always been interested in such problems and this would be a good opportunity to learn more about this.

In the case of Microsoft, I’ve asked to be put to work in the Compilers & Language Design department. I’m very interested in F#, their OCaml + C# + Haskell hash up that should be interesting. I’ve been picking up OCaml on the side now for a little bit and this would be another interesting opportunity.

Anyone have any suggestions or tips on getting through the technical interviews?