Ever wondered what it’s like to work in Big Tech? Alumna Laura Castro ’25 says it’s a dream come true. She recently began her job as a software engineer at Microsoft. “It’s very surreal,” she says.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nandita Giri, a 32-year-old software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. It has been edited for length and clarity. My journey began ...

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