Kristian Kristensen’s Blog

So change is ahead. After graduating in June I’ve been looking for a job. I’ve applied and been interviewed for some. But haven’t quite seemed to find what I was looking for. This includes a job in the banking industry, one with a big SAP shop, plus a couple of consulting gigs. In the end I chose between a couple of big international companies as a consultant, and for a smaller dev shop in Aalborg. One of the big companies was Microsoft. I’ve accepted a job offer as an associate consultant for Microsoft Denmark in Copenhagen. There’s a bit of information up on www.microsoft.dk/ng. Basically it’s a Microsoft Academy for College Hires (MACH) job, which is sort of a trainee position. During a year you get a bunch of training both technical and non-technical to prep you for “life as a consultant”. It looks really exciting and I’m really looking forward to starting in the beginning of December.
Microsoft are going to hire 4 guys for this programme. I’m going to start in December and the 3 others will start in January. My job for December is to figure out how the internal stuff works at Microsoft, get set up with compueter, etc. and help the 3 in January hit the ground running.
Part of the programme entails training in Holland and the US. Upwards of 3 months will spend on training during the first year. This too is really exciting and a big part of why I chose this position.
A nice addition is that Microsoft Denmark was chosen as the best workplace amongst IT companies in Denmark.
So in a couple of weeks time I’ll be moving to Copenhagen. I’ll crash at a friend of mine’s place until I find my own.

Other than the above mentioned applying and interviewing I’ve been tinkering with WCF and WF for gig. I’ve been using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, and it’s been working out very nice. So much the better that Soma announced at TechEd a little over a week ago that VS 2008 will be released during November. Recently I read that it will hit the servers early this week. So cool.