EPTSo here's the story. Once upon a time in a land far far away...
There was a little Vietnamese restaurant. We all called it the Kirkland Pho House. I don't actually know the real name of the place, either way this is where the story starts. My girlfriend used to work at the Kirkland Pho House, and boy was the Pho delicious. I love pho, and I love eating at the Kirkland Pho House. Apparently so do young Microsoft employees who find the waitresses attractive.
One day a Microsoft employee met my girlfriend and her waitress friend named Tuyen. Soon after my girlfriend met this Microsoft employee, who's name is Mark. So Mark Tuyen and my girlfriend all get to know one another, and after some time passes I meet the guy as well. Turns out he's just a really awesome programmer from Australia who now works down the road from myself.
Knowing about the school I attend (which is also down the street) Mark takes interest in the studies I had been doing at the time. I was just making some simple games in Ascii Art game within the Window's Console at the time, but Mark really enjoyed them.
Fast forward, Mark tries to nudge me into an interview by contacting a recruiter. Mark's words about the response were: "kafkaesque email". I didn't even know that was a word. I mean sure Kefka was a douche, but it's actually a word too. This email that Mark had received back was pretty dry and sharp. Basically the recruiter wasn't having any of these pesky suggestions that Mark was trying to present. I was out of luck as far any interview.
This happened months ago, and I've already made a lot of other plans for this summer. Today I received a silly looking email in my inbox! I thought it was spam at first; the title is something like "Internship selection". I've gotten a bit of spam lately about selection for global committee and whatnot and almost deleted the email. The contents of the email were all a bunch of badly formatted and broken text as well. Out of the corner of my eye I see that the email has a word document attached.
Now usually spam emails and scams don't attach documents, probably just to save bandwidth or whatever. So this document attached caught my eye and I decided to read a little more. I click on my email client's "Display images and content" button to correct the horrendously filtered and broken text. To my surprise it was a legitimate interview offer!
Holy shit. Months and months have passed and I've completely dismissed my chances at interviewing at Microsoft. Then out of the blue I almost delete the email that could potentially lead to my graduation hire. Apparently Microsoft's recruiters are often times on contract, and so the Kefka-emailer had been swapped out for a nice bubbly new lady, who apparently liked my resume! Isn't that crazy?
I'm having the first interview next week for software engineering. My girlfriend has one right before myself, too! Oh man I've got some preparing to do. Wish me luck!
