This is the mail I replied to my friend seeking for internship position in Microsoft in China.
Hi xxx,
Thank you for visiting my web site and your interest in Microsoft internship
program. I have forward your resume to our HR manager. First thing you need to
know about Microsoft in China is that Microsoft has four independent
organizations in China, namely, Microsoft (China) Ltd., Microsoft Global
Engineering Center, Microsoft R&D Center in China, Microsoft Asia Research
Center.
Microsoft (China) Ltd. is a subsidiary focusing is on sales and marketing. Just
like Microsoft (Singapore) or Microsoft (Malaysia), there are positions like
sales, marketing, channel manager, product manager. Typically, they do NOT offer
summary internship position. Visit
http://www.microsoft.com/china. It is located in Beijing and has branches in
Guangzhou and Shanghai.
Microsoft R&D Center is located in Beijing focusing on localization, localized
test for Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional) version of Microsoft product.
It also owns Chinese specific product like PinYin IME, Chinese word breaker�.
There are some summary intern positions there.
Microsoft Asia Research Center is the famous research organization, formerly
held by Kai Fu Lee. It is a pure research organization and has lots of summary
internship opportunities. A lot of students from Tsing Hua and Peking Univ. got
internship position there. It is also located in Beijing.
Microsoft Global Engineering Center (a.k.a. GTEC), the organization I am in, is
mainly the support center serving Microsoft customers around the world. We
support customers in Asia region, helping other Microsoft subs in other
countries in Asia. We act as escalation center focusing enterprise customers. We
also support customers in U.S., with a very long product line. Recently, we
began to support Europe and Australia. Besides the support business, there are
more and more other opportunities so many projects are going on within the
organization. It is a very successful organization led by Dr. Jun Tang. There are internship program in GTEC. GTEC is located in Xu Jia
Hui of Shanghai.
Knowing this, you may want to choose an organization you are interested in and
send resume to the right place.
Regards
Jian Shuo Wang
Project Manager
Microsoft Global Engineering Center