One question
I am frequently asked by candidates is “what defines the culture at Microsoft
Advertising and the Online Services Division?” A few words that come to mind
when describing our work environment and culture are: innovation, creativity and
passion. One great example of keeping the spirit of innovation alive is the “Creativity @ Microsoft Advertising”
initiative that Microsoft Advertising recently...
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Jobs Blog - Posts tagged with 'testing'
We don’t share everything about the internals of how Bing operates but we have publicly shared with the world that Bing has its own version of Hadoop (also similar to Map Reduce/Google File System) that we call Cosmos and shared that we have multiple Petabytes of data on this data cloud. One of the interesting things to think about is what testers can do to improve quality when they have massive amounts of real world data....
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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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