Alumni Stories - Rashi Gupta, MIT Sloan MBA ‘13

Apple is the third most popular employer globally for business grads after Google and Goldman Sachs, according to employer research firm Universum. Like many Silicon Valley tech firms, it’s ramped up its hiring of MBAs in recent years.

For the tech giants, MIT Sloan School of Management, the business school of the world’s leading technology university, is an ideal hunting ground for tech-savvy MBA talent.

Each year, around 30% of MIT Sloan MBAs go into jobs in technology; 75% of job opportunities are facilitated by the school. Apple has hired 30 MIT Sloan MBAs in the last five years, according to Poets & Quants data. 97 went to Amazon.

Rashi Gupta worked as an engineer and project leader for Shell in Bangalore, India before relocating to the US for an MBA. She started at MIT Sloan in 2011—one of three $10,000 McKinsey scholarship recipients.

Rashi spent the summer after her first year interning at McKinsey in Boston. But, after graduation, she decided to enter the world of technology, taking up an operations management job in Apple’s Silicon Valley HQ—Apple recruits on-campus at MIT Sloan.

In her time at Apple, Rashi led the development of the world’s biggest iPhone 6 manufacturing site. She’s since left Apple to pursue a new career in South Africa. She had two job offers from Bain & Co. and Cummins—which she accepted—on the table right away.

BusinessBecause caught up with Rashi to find out more about her story.

Apple and many other tech companies come on campus to recruit at MIT Sloan every year. MIT alumni at these tech companies are deeply involved in the process and were instrumental in helping me understand, not only what to expect in the interview process, but also the spirit and culture of Apple.

Apple has a very diverse set of opportunities for MBAs ranging from operations to marketing. With an MBA, I was able to apply for jobs and discuss opportunities I would have been afraid to even speak about before.