Landing an MBA Job at Google

Today’s MBA students are having a tech industry love-in.

Among MBA students based in the US, three out of the top-five most desired companies to work for are technology firms—according to a 2017 report by Universum. Google tops the list.

Luckily, the feeling’s mutual. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google are hiring more MBA students’ year-on-year.

In fact, the 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies list found that Alphabet (the parent company of Google, and others) is the #1 organization Americans are hoping to land a job.

Google is investing $13 billion to expand its US footprint and by the end of this year will have a presence in 24 states. CEO Sundar Pichai said, “2019 marks the second year in a row we’ll be growing faster outside of the Bay Area than in it.”

When Itamar Snir left Israel to pursue an MBA in the US, he did so because most of the world’s leading tech firms are American.

After four years in the Israeli Defense Forces and four years working in machine learning and big data analytics at Intel in Tel Aviv, he decided he wanted to try something new – to extend beyond the technical into the business side of tech.

He moved with his wife to New York and enrolled on the full-time MBA program at NYU Stern, graduating from the program in 2017. Out of NYU Stern’s MBA class of 2018, 94 percent accepted job offers within three months of graduation. 82 percent of those were facilitated by the school; 45 percent came out of an internship, and 20 percent were thanks to Stern on-campus scheduled interviews.

When, after his first year, Itamar landed a 12-week summer internship at Google’s Mountain View, California HQ, he knew there was a good chance he’d get a full-time job out of it. And he was proved right—he got the call from Google in September, a full year before graduation.

Now, he’s a product manager at Google in New York, working on Google’s core product—its search engine, used on average 3.5 billion times each day.

Itamar’s MBA experience in the US has changed his life in more ways than one—his wife gave birth to his first child during his last semester. That aside, if he was to highlight one stand-out experience from his MBA, it would be the class trip to Las Vegas where, for a week, he got behind-the-scenes access to life and business logistics in Sin City.

BusinessBecause – a leading business school and MBA news platform – caught up with Itamar to find out more.

I followed the traditional on-campus recruiting path. Many employers are interested in hiring NYU Stern grads—Amazon, IBM, Google, all those companies come to recruit on campus.

Even before the orientation started, the school had a welcome day for international students, explaining how the US differs from other countries; how you should network, and apply for jobs. There was a lot of support—from professors, alums, and second-year students—throughout the entire recruitment process.