Data Science Graduates

About Microsoft

Microsoft develops, manufactures, and licenses computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services. Its best-known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.

Your role

Those hired into this role are invited to participate in Microsoft Aspire Experience, a two-year learning and development experience where you'll build your network, cultivate intentional capabilities and gain perspective into the career opportunities across Microsoft’s many exciting businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Develop highly scalable classifiers, data regression, recommendations and predictive models
• Analyze petabytes of data and mine patterns from logs
• Bring data to life using rich visualizations
• Create language models, speech models, vision models, etc.
• Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and innovate to create next-generation feature sets.
• Enable natural and contextual interactions in apps integrating cognitive and analytics services
• Adapt standard ML methods to best exploit modern parallel environments.
• Implement algorithms that power user and developer-facing products reaching out to millions of users. Measure and optimize the quality of your algorithms.
• Work in product teams shipping large-scale end-to-end applications/solutions.

Training, development & rotations

Their growth mindset culture begins with valuing learning over knowing-seeking out new ideas, embracing challenges, learning from failure, and improving over time. To support this culture, they offer a diverse range of learning and development opportunities. They believe training can be more than formal instruction, and their philosophy focuses on providing the right learning, at the right time, in the right way. Opportunities include:

• Personalized, integrated, and relevant views of all learning opportunities on Microsoft Learning and LinkedIn Learning.
• In-the-classroom learning and sharing with learner boards.
• On-the-job “stretch” opportunities for advancement.
• Frequent promotion opportunities.
• Coaching on career development through ongoing manager connections.
• Customized manager training to enhance coaching and mentoring skills.

Salary & Benefits

The typical Microsoft Data Scientist salary is INR 14,22,000 per year. Data Scientist salaries at Microsoft can range from INR 6,00,000 - INR 21,97,000 per year. (Source: Glassdoor)

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Paid time off
• Family benefits
• Savings and retirement
• Perks and discount programs
• Development opportunities

Work-life balance

According to the Ambition box, work-life balance at Microsoft is rated at 4.2 out of 5. Work days are usually from Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings). They also promote hybrid work culture depending upon your job role.

Culture & vibe

One of Microsoft's most prominent cultures is its "competition" culture. This refers to how Microsoft employees often work with other companies to develop new technologies or products and then compete with those companies by using those new products in their businesses.

About you

Qualifications:

• B.Tech / M.Tech/ MS degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field with min. 7/10 CGPA. The batch of 2023. (No backlogs)
• Kaggle score is a plus.
• Experience with R / Matlab / Scipy / Pandas / Weka, and scripting languages such as Perl, and Python.
• Experience with Hadoop / Hbase / Pig or MapReduce / Bigtable / AzureML a plus
• Knowledge of C++, C#, and .NET is a plus.

How to apply

All open positions are posted on their career page. And all applications at Microsoft must be submitted through their Careers page. To apply for this role, just click on the Apply button, which navigates to the career section where the application can be submitted easily. Once you have filled in all your details, you will be asked to take an aptitude test. After aptitude test submission, they may contact you in some days for further interview process if you are shortlisted.