Couple of options:
1) Getting into consulting/VC etc. 
2) Working in a startup that eventually grows, showing promotions within that, and impact 
3) Working for a social organization; doing well there

Does the internship experience at NGO works for 3rd point?

Product Manager

Investment Associate

1. Good volunteer experience  
 2. International work ex or work ex with global teams 
 3. GMAT 750+

Finance Consultant

I wanted to know what more I should be focusing on for getting the M7 admit in future (targeting for 2025/2026 cycle)  Current profile: 1. College  BITS Pilani ( 6 cgpa)  2021 pass out  2. Experien...

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

I wanted to know what more I should be focusing on for getting the M7 admit in future (targeting for 2025/2026 cycle)

Current profile:
1. College - BITS Pilani ( 6 cgpa) - 2021 pass out 
2. Experience - Working as Product manager 
3. More than Enough college PORs
4. LORs from director and managerial level 


Please suggest the next steps for working on the profile

Ideal profile for M7 MBA admit

Ideal profile for M7 MBA admit- Grapevine

I have 76% in 10th, 81 in 12th, and 70 in UG 

Having said that I am currently working on building strong profile so it shall compensate on my academic score.

And also I'm new joinee in a company planning to get into mba after 2yr. 

Any experienced professionals advice would.  truly be appreciated.

Ps. If not consulting please do mention what is strong profile contains to stand out from the croud in MBA admissions & placements.

What should be the ideal strong profile contain for getting to MBB.

Analyst

Welcome to Moving Abroad's Private Community

How are the job prospects in general? How are the prospects in Dubai after doing the MIM .Is it worth it? . While the 2022 graduates had great job offers, the 2023 batch struggled. Any thoughts on this?

Thoughts on MIM( Insead, LBS) vs ISB MBA

Product analyst

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I (M22) currently have about 8 months (2023) of SWE experience working at a European tech company making roughly 12Lpa. I am planning of going for a MBA in the next 2-3 years but only if I get into a top b-school. I am highly ambitious and hope to climb the MANGA corporate ladder to a C suite/exec level position in the next 15-20 years. Will an MBA make sense for my goals and what sort of roles do tech giants usually hire for from top iims/isb and the likes? 
Is going for a MBA going to fast track my career or should I just grind the swe -> sdm -> director path with just a B.Tech degree ( Tier-2 private university)

MBA for career advancement?

Software Developer

Old IIT, random branch, 8 years out of college, 45LPA fixed + 10 variable + 20L RSUs in a generalist project lead role with a consulting services firm. Confused. Had been wanting to startup at some point hence didn't go for a M7 MBA.  Not sure about starting up now. ISB, Insead and maybe a long shot at an M7 also on the table. Can stay at this firm and be partner equivalent in 4-5 years but it ain't MBB so max I see myself is at 80L fixed in 5 years and it plateauing.
How'd you go about thinking this through?

To MBA or not

Management Consulting

Asking this for a friend.

SHE: 
- Senior Risk Analyst | 4 years WorkEx | American Express. 
- Graduate from an old IIT. 
- Reason - MBA ideally from abroad, for exposure, foreign tag and global opportunities.
- Wants to come back to India, maximum 2 years after MBA completion.

Profile:
- GMAT Classic = 710
- 9/9/8 in X/XII/undergrad
- Planning to do some side NGO work

Post-MBA desired roles:
- Roles with intersection of finance and analytics.
- Research based roles
- Strategy Roles
- Not Consulting, IB, or Corporate Finance


Query 1: Considering her profile, does she have a chance to bag an MBA admit from the following with little scholarship:

- LBS
- Insead
- HEC Paris
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- SDA Bocconi
- NUS Singapore
- IESE
- ISB
- Are there other good schools, she can Target?

She's targeting 1 year programs only for cost purposes, hence the US is out of the picture. Feel free to suggest good 1 yr US programs

Query 2: Is it worth considering ISB MBA or IIM A PGPX, are they good and any comparison between the two?

Query 3: Should she reappear for GMAT, if her score is not good enough? How else can she build her profile? Any consultant she can refer to based on your personal experience?

Please guide 🙏🙏🙏🙏

MBA Profile Evaluation and Suggestion

Product Management

Hi all,
I’ve worked in 3 companies till now and looking forward to give gmat and expecting a score of 710 by the end of June. I want to apply for September 2024 intake let me know which collage is best for the same is isb worth doing a pgp after 7 years of job experience with a package of 15 LPA

Which collage is good for mba for person with 7 years job ex?

Business Development Manager

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I am a frontend engineer in a startup with a CTC of 7. I am also from a tier 3 engineering college graduated last month.
I want to become a product manager in the future. 
So my question is what things I should to achieve my goal. Will doing an MBA help me, if yes which is more better MBA from old IIM’s, ISB or global MBA ?

MBA for product manager role

Frontend Engineer

Me: APM with almost 2 years of experience looking to do an MBA to fast track my career.

Post-MBA roles:
- Product Management
- Strategy Roles
- Program/Project Management
- General Management
- Other similar roles

Long term goal: To stay in India; fine with working 2-3 years abroad.

Query 1: Considering an average profile with 9/8/8 in high school/intermediate/college, tier-1 undergrad and 2 years work-ex at a start-up. Do I have a chance to bag an MBA admit from the following with little scholarship:

- LBS
- Insead
- HEC Paris
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- SDA Bocconi
- NUS Singapore
- IESE
- ISB

I'm targeting 1 year programs only for cost purposes, hence the US is out of the picture. Feel free to suggest good 1 yr US programs

Query 2: How much GMAT is required for my profile to get into these schools?

Query 3: Are 2 year IIM Programs more advisable for me and should I leave abroad colleges altogether. At the maximum, I can't wait more than 3 years of work-ex at the time of applying due to personal reasons.

Please guide me🙏🙏🙏🙏

MBA Profile Evaluation and PM Career

My opinion -  
  
 Q1 - If your long term goal is to be in India, prefer institutions within india. Reason - You won’t be able to build network, an imp component of any MBA program. I know someone who went Dublin and struggling even to get references back home. Adding A/B/C will help  
  
 Q2 - Target 720, you will land at a better place. GMAT is just a barrier, not the deciding criteria. 
  
 Q3- 2 years would be good considering your constraints and long term goals. If you can extend 1 more year, you’ll be eligible for IIMs 1 yr MBAs.  
  
 Overall - It’s my strong opinion that if you are targeting foreign MBAs, value derivation will happen only if you plan to stay, work abroad for few years. Financial burdens will be less plus you will something worthwhile to show. See the privilege of “foreign-returned” is slowly reducing in india as global roles are getting created here as well.

I am a software engineer with 2 yrs of experience.
I am kinda fascinated with the developing idea of project than developing the product. I want to switch to product management which I think somehow doing it my current job except giving the idea.

I like to innovate solutions and implement then in the real world and I want people to use it. I think this would be the right path to get started into it.

Doing an mba is also good option but I think moving to pm role will be a good option .
It’s to crack it but not impossible.

I am not sure how the feature would be for this career.

OPEN TO HEAT 
Suggestions , Advices, Opinions, Experiences.
:)

Software Engineer to Product Manager

Career Progression:
IIT BTech - avg GPA
Ex-founder experience
Youngest amongst mid-management at current job
IPO possibility on the cards
Well compensated

Preference:
Global top 10-15 MBA
To eventually stay in India (3-5 yrs timeline)
Doesn't fancy Consulting but seeks senior leadership / founder role in next ~5 years

shoot your thoughts / suggestions / pros / cons

Is an MBA worth it? (only outside India). Context in description.

Founder’s Office

Asking this for a friend.

SHE: 
- Senior Analyst | 4 years WorkEx | American Express. 
- Graduate from an old IIT. 
- Reason - MBA ideally from abroad, for exposure, foreign tag and global opportunities.
- Wants to come back to India, maximum 2 years after MBA completion.

Profile:
- GMAT Classic = 710
- 9/9/8 in X/XII/undergrad
- Planning to do some side NGO work

Post-MBA desired roles:
- Roles with intersection of finance and analytics.
- Research based roles
- Strategy Roles
- Not Consulting, IB, or Corporate Finance


Query 1: Considering her profile, does she have a chance to bag an MBA admit from the following with little scholarship:

- LBS
- Insead
- HEC Paris
- Oxford
- Cambridge
- SDA Bocconi
- NUS Singapore
- IESE
- ISB
- Are there other good schools, she can Target?

She's targeting 1 year programs only for cost purposes, hence the US is out of the picture. Feel free to suggest good 1 yr US programs

Query 2: Is it worth considering ISB MBA or IIM A PGPX, are they good and any comparison between the two?

Query 3: Should she reappear for GMAT, if her score is not good enough? How else can she build her profile? Any consultant she can refer to based on your personal experience?

Please guide 🙏🙏🙏🙏

MBA Evaluation and Job Scope

Hi, I am currently 22, graduated recently from a tier 2 institute and currently working at a US based startup earning 18lpa ( almost all base ) + rsu's, lately my family have been nagging me to do a postgrad, I am confused weather I should do an MBA, MS or not do a postgrad at all considering the years I will miss in workex. 

What should be my best course of action considering ROI in the next 10-15 years ?? 

P.S. Currently I am not sure what my interest lies in, but just try to excel at whatever comes my way.

What should be my next steps ?

Software Engineer

I want to get into Product but not sure what should be the first step. If anyone can guide it'll be really helpful.( Expecting genuine replies only)

Hello grapevine folks,

I am a 2024 batch btech Cse , general male candidate from IIIT( 10 year old).

Class 12th - 97% (ISC)
Class 10th - 96.4% (ICSE)
Btech Cgpa - 9.415 (till 6th sem)

I am thinking of giving CAT next year but in dilemma that should I go for work experience or not . As iims do prefer people having work experience. 

And what percentile should I aim for getting admission in old IIMs.

Thanks in advance.

MBA Guidance

Hi
I am currently at 1.5YOE earning around 60-65k appx 
I am getting opportunities to do an MBA in tier 2 colleges like IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur, IIM Nagpur etc
Should I consider them or should I take a drop for a Tier1 MBA or should I continue to grow workex and switch in IT domain only ?

Should I do an MBA

Guy's wanted to know if MBA from premiere institute is important after ug from IIT if I had enough non core internship experience and did 6 good product management interns and worked with interns from IIMs . ( Currently in pre final year)

My major focus is the position of role in Product and pay ?

Should I apply for ISB YLP like I have good co curriculars and have won many prestigious competitions

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