I'm currently an Explore (SWE + PM) intern at Microsoft, main background is front end dev. I have a return offer from my team, which is a backend team (but my project this summer was front end), and based on discussions with my manager and the person likely to be my manager next year, I'd be doing a back end project. In the past, I found it very hard to have companies show interest in me for non front-end roles (eg Google only ever considered me for front end teams when I did team matching there). I also plan to take 2 more internships in fall 2020 and winter 2021, as I want to try out different locations and environments (one more tech giant and maybe a startup would be interesting). Should I take the return offer at MSFT (7.2k/mth +$5k signing bonus) for summer and then look elsewhere for fall and winter? Or should I look in different places for all 3 terms? I don't think I can get into good LC form by the time of my offer deadline, and honestly I would prefer to use that time to upgrade my skills and work on projects instead. I'm trying to optimize for a combination of resume prestige and exposure to different environments. TC 5k/mth
Try to get into a tier 1 company.
Do you think I should try for summer or can I chill for a bit and wait until fall/winter? Google/FB will hire a lot of students for those terms still
No idea, you need to figure out what works best for you. I am from a shitty uni in Europe, so I know nothing about campus recruiting. My suggestion is not to get lured by this bs 5k signing bonus and explore other companies before making a decision.
Do microsoft. You already know you will have an offer and you will get experience with something you haven't done much of. Sounds like a solid win to me.
Yeah, this seems like only way I'm going to convince a big company to let me do something I don't have experience in anyway, so that's the direction I'm leaning Thanks