I went to the student career fair and talked with reps from Microsoft. I later pleaded with one of the recruits about how often I applied and never received an interview. He told me the key was to match software key words in my resume and list different class projects. I took his advice and got the interview. During the interview process the interviewer asked for my academic background, and then asked a few questions on that background. One such question was: what is the main reason for pipelined processors? - Answer is to increase throughput. After bs-ing around he finally asked me to write a c-program to reverse the order of numbers in an array using pointers.