My name is Arthur, and I’m the Test Manager for the Mobile Domains and Commerce team.  The MDC team is one of seven teams within the larger Bing Mobile organization, and together we are working to build innovative, world-class, mobile centric features for Bing users.  I love working in the mobile space.  To me, mobile is about immediacy:  who you are and who you’re with; where you are and where you’re...
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 I graduated with my Master’s Degree in Human Resources from the University of Minnesota last spring.  Upon graduation, I took an offer from Microsoft and launched my career in the HR Trax program at Microsoft.  HR Trax is an early in career rotational program at Microsoft in which I get great exposure to HR leaders and undertake 1 year rotations in the different HR specialties.  Whether you’re in a program like HR...
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September 24th was United Way of King County day of caring in which corporations volunteer for various community projects. Online Services Division had the opportunity to help out at Atlantic Street Teen & Family center, where they painted numerous multi-purpose rooms. Atlantic Street Center’s Mission is to help families and communities raise healthy and successful children and youth. They also pooled money together to donate an Xbox 360...
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I work in the “Paid Search” division within OSD. We are the team that fuels the monetization for Bing Search and now Yahoo search as well. Microsoft’s paid search advertising, aka adCenter, provides an advertising platform for search marketing advertisers to reach to users who are searching for their products.  Search Engine Marketing is projected to be over $25B/year market in the USA in 2011. Within the adCenter product,...
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I work in the knowledge domain group which is responsible for powering the Bing Health vertical.  From a professional perspective, the work is challenging. The search world is ever advancing, and we are at the cutting edge of technology.  But what makes Bing Health special is the feedback we are getting from our users. You see, researching health on the web is not like trying to figure out which restaurant to go to or finding the best...
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Working in the AdCenter test team is a great challenge. You get to work on leading edge software that runs at very large scale. The testing is still evolving as we have to find the right rhythm to support frequent releases and balance testing in the lab as well as testing some features in production.  The other major work challenge we have is trying to figure out the right way to scale our testing to 3-5x the current volume of traffic in...
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At the end of October, I’ll be attending the National Society of Hispanic MBAs conference & career expo in Chicago, IL. Myself, about 30-40 of my Microsoft staffing colleagues, and roughly 8,000 current MBA students and graduates will be gathering in the Windy City with two common goals: to eat our weight in deep-dish pizza and to network like crazy.  Our fantastic campus recruiting team will be there interviewing current MBA...
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Data centers get a lot of publicity because of the rate of growth and the amount of power consumed across the globe.  Companies that provide content and applications, as well as end users, just expect things to work.  Everyone expects to find anything they need online, from every device they own, and it should always be available.  This requires careful planning to stay ahead of demand, precise coordination of maintenance...
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  I asked recruiters, hiring managers, for their top “pet peeves” things they see on resumes that make them                                                      ...
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