Tech companies are on a hiring spree for MBAs.

Over the past five years, Amazon hired 49 MBAs from Columbia Business School alone. And Google tripled its MBA hiring rate in one year, according to a Business Insider report.

But what exactly does it take to get hired as an MBA by a company, like Google? In an exclusive story for MBA Crystal Ball, Abhinav Iyer, a class of 2019 MBA student at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business and incoming solutions consultant at Google, explains how he was able to secure both an internship and a full-time position at the tech giant.

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Recruiting is a challenging, full-time job for MBA students. Peer competition is intense, and various uncertainties about different career paths add more complexity to the decision making. For those who are looking to leverage their MBA as a pivot point, this is a crucial time, and the decision before them is likely to be life-changing. Unfortunately, healthcare as a career option is not always at the top of students’ priority list. Check out the 2018 employment report from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (below), my alma mater, which shows that only 7% of the Class 2018 accepted a job in healthcare. Instead, as usual, the majority gravitated toward consulting, tech, and financial services. 

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What do B-school graduates expect to be doing in the next few years, especially considering the world’s continuing economic volatility? How do MBAs anticipate the next few years of their careers developing? To find out, a global accreditation agency conducted a survey of recent MBA grads, and the answers they came up with show MBAs’ belief in themselves to make a big difference — for their employers and for the world.

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A few years ago, it was fashionable to bash Microsoft. Critics claimed that Google and Apple had raced ahead of them. The company’s stumbles in wearable tech, smartphones, and streaming music were the stuff of business cases. As the digital age pivoted past Windows and Office, the comparisons between Microsoft and IBM only intensified.

Last month, the Redmond air rippled with the sound of champagne corks popping off. At market close, Microsoft had reached a market cap of $851.36, dethroning Apple as the most valuable company in the world – by a $4 billion dollar margin, no less. It was a comeback for the ages. Over the past five years, Microsoft had pulled the ultimate hat-trick: it had overhauled its business model, regained its dominance, and tripled share value. In the process, the company has transformed itself into the leader of burgeoning fields like cloud-based computing, artificial intelligence, gaming, and cybersecurity.

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