Microsoft Codess Program

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Codess is a community for female coders initiated by Microsoft established to open up more ways to promote gender diversity in the engineering field. Microsoft Codess has been inspiring women in engineering and technology and helping tech-savvy females to achieve their professional goals. What started out as a networking event has transformed into a strong and supportive community spread across the world. In India, this program focuses only on female students.

Eligibility:

• 2nd-year female students pursuing BE/B.Tech or a similar degree.
• M.Tech 1st-year girls (across all specializations)
• 70% in the current academic program could register for this event.
• CGPA is equal to or greater than 7 in the current academic program.

You can participate in this event by simply registering for it. The recruitment is carried out in the following two phases:

Phase 1: This is an online coding test, hosted on any online coding platform like Mettl, mostly in early March. It consists of four coding questions to attempt which you need a thorough understanding of basic data structures and algorithms. Students are selected based on their performance in this round and GPA for the next round.

Phase 2 (Microsoft Codess events): The Codess Networking event and Hackathon, is a fully-sponsored two-day event (at either Hyderabad or Bangalore) where you get an opportunity to network with Microsoft leaders and other stellar students from top colleges across India and participate in a mentored hackathon.

• Day 1 of the event involves a Fireside chat with women leaders who talked about their journey in technology, and in Microsoft, a hands-on Garage activity followed by a networking session over snacks. 
• Day 2 is the Ideation where everyone is urged to come out of their comfort zones and are divided into teams and given some problem domains. Each team is assigned a mentor. The teams need to come up with different innovative solutions for the problems and pitch their ideas to the judges who then decide the winning teams. This can be followed by a personal interview for an internship as well. 

What’s in it for you?

• Interact with Microsoft leaders.
• Mentorship opportunity with Microsoft Engineers.
• A summer Internship opportunity with Microsoft.
• Network with budding female coders from across the country.

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