Profile evaluation for ISB, IIM, IIM, IIM, IIM, Kellogg, Stanford, IESE, Duke Fuqua, Johnson (Cornell), LBS, ESSEC, Said, Cambridge Judge, Wharton, Tepper, Ross (Michigan), INSEAD, Sloan (MIT), Technology background, from India

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5 hours ago

Hi
Priyanka here from ARINGO. Speaking about your profile, you have a strong profile overall, especially from an academic standpoint. A strong GPA in Engineering, combined with strong school scores, shows consistent performance over the years. Your experience in the DevOps/SRE space at a US-based product company also gives you a solid technical foundation.

The move into PM feels like a natural next step, but I think you need to spend some time refining your goals. Right now, you're mentioning PM, Consulting, Strategy, VC, and IB. These are all very different career paths, and schools will want to understand what your primary goal is and why.

Can you share more details about
1. Have you led any major projects, initiatives, or cross-functional teams?
2. What made you interested in Product Management in the first place?
3. Do you have any extracurricular activities, mentoring, volunteering, or leadership experience outside work?

One other thing that stood out is the number of schools on your list. You currently have a very broad mix of US, European, Indian, and Singaporean programs. It may be worth narrowing the list down and categorizing schools into reach, target, and safety options once you have a better sense of your GMAT score and post-MBA goals.

Overall, I think you're off to a good start. The next step is getting clarity on your career goals, building a focused school list, and then aligning your application story around that direction.

]I’d be happy to offer you a free profile review for your target programs to see where you stand and how to boost your chances, happy to help!

No pressure, no strings - just helpful insights on where you stand and how you can strengthen your chances.

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Good Luck!

funnygrass

2 hours ago

My main goal is Product Management. Consulting, VC and Strategy are good post-MBA options but I would only like to focus on Product as my first priority, mainly because of the tech industry as well as the leadership ladder. I interned in my company within a Product team but was later converted to FTE into a Devops team, which made me feel interested in it initially. I feel my experience also aligns better with that.

To answer questions:
1. I have executed and led just a couple of major projects in my tenure. I have worked mostly on the execution side of things, I have provided my inputs and helped with the roadmap and planning, even interacted with internal customers and relevant stakeholders but never owned the full cycle end-to-end because I'm still an L2 after 4 years. But my work has always been cross-functional and the impact has been on multiple teams.

2. The experience of catering to external customers was one main area of interest for me. I continue to do that in my current role, just that the impact is only internal across the org because I'm in the platform team. I feel my interests lie more towards ideation and planning rather than writing code after these years. I am okay with writing code, I like to do that - just that I want to understand and focus more on why we build and ship features and how that impacts the business.

3. I have been a part of a Golang community in my city, I am also a learned Kathak dancer (Indian classical dance form that I pursued and learnt for 8+ years) and I have mentored junior engineers and interns in my team itself.

I am not specifically looking for a particular geography, my main focus is MBA programs that provide promising opportunities in tech industry after graduation. With AI coming up, tech looks promising and hence knowing the business side of it is also something that I want to get acquainted with.