This week, I'm talking with Jeffrey Mew who's been working on quite a few projects on my team at Microsoft for nearly 3 years. Jeffrey's a graduate of the unique co-op program at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where he interned with us before making the decision to come on as a full time employee.

Today, we talk about what makes the co-op program at Waterloo unique, and why Microsoft values so highly the graduates of this program. In fact, at one point a few years back when we hit "peak Waterloo", we had 5 Waterloo graduates on our team! We talk about how PM is really an inter-disciplinary career and what you might be able to do to help prepare for this during school.

Along the way, Jeffrey shares with me how he gained valuable experiences in each of the three major projects that he's done at Microsoft: launching Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code, partnering with Facebook on PyTorch tooling, and building a brand new data wrangling experience in VS Code.

Links from the show:

• University of Waterloo Co-Op
• Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code
• PyTorch in VS Code
• Data Wrangler is coming soon :)