Alumna is software engineer at Microsoft

Laura Castro at Microsoft

Ever wondered what it’s like to work in Big Tech?

Alumna Laura Castro ’25 says it’s a dream come true. She recently began her job as a software engineer at Microsoft.

“It’s very surreal,” she says. “You walk into the building, and you see people there and you realize, ‘That person made a product that I use,’ and ‘that person did, too.’ And it’s crazy because you realize, ‘I work on those projects, too!’”

Castro graduated last spring with her bachelor’s in computer science from FIU's Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences and a job waiting at Microsoft in Seattle.

Read more at FIU News.