""Breaking into Big Tech is hardest at the beginning," he said. "For me, that breakthrough came via internships at Amazon and Salesforce, which gave me enough credibility to land my Microsoft offer.""
""I wasn't just doing 'intern tasks' - I was already solving latency and error-tolerance issues that directly affected customers and operational SLAs," he said. "This was mostly driven by my own initiative, with support from my managers.""
""What's a real reliability or latency problem on the critical path that no one has had time to fix yet?""
Shubham Malhotra began pursuing Big Tech roles during his fifth semester at RIT while completing a co-op at a real-estate tech firm. He grew up in New Delhi, moved to the US to study software engineering, and secured internships at Salesforce (summer 2021) and Amazon AWS (fall 2021). He treated internships as engineering labs, deliberately building infrastructure, performance, latency, and error-tolerance expertise that impacted customers and SLAs. He applied via a job portal and received a Microsoft full-time offer for 2022, stayed there two and a half years, and relocated to Seattle to join Amazon in November 2024.
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