Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-08-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Stay away from Bing Ads group
Pros: - Good reputation in general in the industry. 
- Opens up other job opportunities in the industry.
- If you are lucky enough to be in a group which is making money and have a really good manager who you can follow around, stay.
Cons: - Your fate is decided by your manager. If he/she doesn't like you, you can stay int he same level for several years and never get promoted because they need people who can do the less glorious work too

- Bing Ads in the bay area has some of the worst people managers. They cannot stomach critical constructive feedback. Have witnessed several of my outspoken colleagues forced out of the team.

- There is occasional evidence of racial bias in hiring and promotions. Take a look at the names of people in some of the teams, you'll clearly see this. I've been on interview panel where despite having strong hires for a person of not the same ethnic background, they were not hired. The hiring decisions are not transparent to the interview panel. It is entirely in the hands of the hiring manager.