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I think this would depend on the project and team you are working on. For my internship I had my own project, which was situated in the context of what my team worked on, but otherwise I had full ownership of the project. As the project "lead", I made every decision, from defining the problem spa...

I’d say the main qualities you should highlight are problems you’ve noticed and solved outside of just your classes when designing or building software. Open source code helps if you’ve worked on any. Help give the interviewers as much insigt as possible to the way you’ve solved or thought about ...

Being a software engineer is just one piece of the machine. It's important to know that as a programmer you will be doing a lot of direct interaction with product creation, but don't forget that there are lots of roles involved with making Microsoft what it is.