Data Science Internship

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

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience a culture full of diverse community connections, executive engagement, and memorable events

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 

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.

Employee 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. (No backlogs)
• Kaggle's 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

To apply for this role, just click on the "Pre Register" button, so that you will be notified when the position is active and open for the application process.