DOT Desk: Fahima Mahzabin Chowdhury is currently working as the Design Verification Engineer of the ‘surface’ team at Microsoft, reports The Daily Star.
She graduated from North South University with a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and then joined San Francisco State University in the US to complete her master’s in Engineering, with a concentration in Embedded Electrical and Computing Systems.
She also has research experience in plasmonic solar cell and nano circuitry, specialised in resistive memory design. Finding a good job in the US after graduation was one of the major challenges that she faced. This was primarily due to her lack of professional experience and other complicacies. Eventually, she joined a US medical device manufacturer earlier this year. Six months after her first job, a recruiter contacted her through LinkedIn, asking whether she wanted to apply to Microsoft. Initially, she was not really enthusiastic about the job because she was unwilling to leave California. Nevertheless, the recruiter convinced her for an hour-long interview over the phone, during which she was asked to provide descriptions of how she would solve different technical problems.