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04 Mar 2015, 15:00
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| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: The 30th Tuck Winter Carnival |
  Kat is a second-year student who spent four years as a director at a boutique marketing consulting firm before coming to Tuck. She has used her time at school to transition into brand management, spending this past summer at Colgate-Palmolive in NYC. When not planning TWC2015 (or being sad that it’s over), Kat spends her time playing tripod hockey and skiing in the Upper Valley. “Skiing & parties & costumes & music & business.” – TWC2015 Saturday Night Party T-Shirt For the past ten months, five fellow T’15 classmates and I had the honor of organizing the great annual tradition that is Tuck Winter Carnival, now in its 30th year. For those who are not familiar with TWC, the Tuck Winter Carnival is an annual extravaganza that brings MBA students from over 15 schools together (650+ people!) to celebrate the winter season in our hometown of Hanover, NH. Unlike case competitions or recruiting fairs, this is a one-of-a-kind inter-collegiate event for MBAs with the sole purpose of enjoying the outdoors and making connections with other students—all while wearing our best neon gear and listening to hits from the 80s. Given our skiing and snowboarding expertise, tolerance for freezing temperatures, and penchant for fun, only the Tuck School of Business could host this kind of event. (At least we think so.) Leading TWC with my fellow co-chairs has been my most fulfilling, exhilarating role during my two years at Tuck. In a way, the task of planning such a big event requires many of the same skills I will need in my time after Tuck: working closely with a team, managing a staff of volunteers, arranging logistics with external suppliers, sticking to a budget … the list goes on. While we certainly experienced our challenges along the way, there is probably nothing more rewarding for hard work than seeing a sea of neon in the Upper Valley for 48 hours straight—it is a glorious sight. Upon receiving countless thank you emails from Tuck students and other schools, and after reviewing the photo and video evidence from the weekend (#twc2015), the TWC co-chairs believe this year’s Carnival was a great success. TWC2015 had many highlights to share:
A big thanks to the other MBA programs who traveled near and far to get to the Upper Valley to party with us: Babson, Booth, Carroll (BC), Columbia, Cornell Johnson, Darden, Fuqua, Haas, HBS, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Tepper, Wharton, and Yale SOM. One of the best things about TWC is the camaraderie across different schools that ensues over the course of the weekend (despite some healthy competition along the way), and the connections that continue well beyond the event. Perhaps most importantly, the weekend would not have been possible without the spirit of the Tuck community. The welcoming, generous, and friendly culture that Tuck is known for was certainly apparent in interactions throughout the weekend. It is because of our students, staff, and volunteers that we are able to share the uniqueness of our Tuck experience with other MBA students through TWC. We undoubtedly showed our visitors what they are missing out on! The TWC2015 Co-Chairs are psyched to select next year’s committee. Only 11 months and 21 days until TWC2016! TWC2015 Co-Chairs: Kat Amato T’15 Joe DeBonis T’15 Adam Hewson T’15 Ewa Kisilewicz T’15 Matt Prescottano T’15 Chris White T’15      
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05 Mar 2015, 07:35
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My main reason for acquiring an Mba is to be able to have access to financing to invest in real estate in my home country or leveraged buyout of stateowned assets in my home country. I know tuck opens the door to the finance world, but are my dreams and aspirations too lofty of an MBA
05 Mar 2015, 09:00
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| FROM Tuck Admissions Blog: Recruiting Advice for the Tech Industry from CDO Expert Mathias Machado T’09 |
  Mathias Machado T’09 is an associate director of Tuck's Career Development Office. Discuss how you’d prepare for fit interviews for the tech industry. One of the things about tech to keep in mind is that it’s not the same as consulting or investment banking where it’s about one role. Tech companies are so different—not just culturally, but also from a role perspective—and tech has so many niches. The questions you can expect really depend on the role, but in general you should remember that each company will be looking for different things and it’s important to figure that out. For example, Amazon has 14 leadership principles and they make sure when they ask behavioral questions that they look for them in candidates. Google looks for four attributes in any interview: cognitive ability, leadership or emerging leadership, culture fit (“Googliness”), and role-related knowledge. (That last one is the least important unless it’s for very specific roles.) The best way to prepare for an interview in tech, besides knowing your story and prepping for the generic behavioral questions, is have an understanding of what’s going on in the industry. You can’t just pick up the newspaper today if you have an interview tomorrow. You really have to look over a period of six months and follow stories. For example, if today Google is acquiring a company, there’s a reason behind it you should know, whether it’s a strategic move to be more competitive in a certain space or to prevent another company from buying it. The only way to know these things is to continuously follow the news. You can do that however you prefer: listening to podcasts, following Twitter, or reading blogs and publications. Besides knowing the news, you need to also form opinions, which takes time. An interviewer can tell in five minutes whether or not you’re truly passionate and informed about tech. Shed some light on technical questions that are asked in the tech industry. It’s difficult to know because it depends on what role you’re interviewing for. If you’re going for a product-related role, they might ask you to tell them your favorite product and why as well as what would you change about it and why. You need to be able to dig deep. I’m just making this example up, but let’s say they ask you to pretend that you’re the product manager for Amazon Prime, which hasn’t been released yet and you have to price it. How much would it be and why? There’s no right answer, but an interviewer will be interested to analyze your thought processes. Tell me about the logistics of the typical interview process for the tech industry. Again, there are no “typical” interviews. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are the three biggest recruiters at Tuck in terms of numbers. Amazon would do first and final rounds in the same week here at Tuck. You would have two interviews with one interviewer each in the first round and two in the second round. For Google, you would have one or two phone interviews then they would fly you out to Mountain View. For some Microsoft roles, like marketing, you would interview here, but for others you would do a phone interview before they fly you out to Seattle. Most interviews will include a mini case—not as full-fledged as a consulting case—just for reasoning ability. I always tell students to practice consulting cases, even if they’re not going to do consulting because it’s always helpful. Google used to do brainteasers but now they’re more geared towards reasoning through business problems. One sample case question could be if you were to put a vending machine on an airplane, where it would go, what you would sell, how you would manage inventory, how much you would charge, etc. Your first reaction might be to think about a vending machine selling cans of soda, but if you think differently, you could have earplugs or phone chargers or books. Getting into these kinds of questions tells an interviewer a lot about you and how you think. For the tech industry, how important is prior experience vs. performance in interview vs. networking? It depends by company. My experience tells me that for Google, for example, prior experience is important, but it’s less so at Amazon and Microsoft. With Google, if you’ve done marketing before, you’ll probably get a marketing interview, for example. You will be able to move laterally or between functions once you join the company. Tech is not networking heavy like banking or consulting. It’s always important, however, because it can give you the idea of what makes a marketing role at Microsoft different from one at Amazon. It’s not that companies put emphasis on networking, but it’s important for a student to network to get the right information to then do well in the interview. Any other advice on how best to prepare for interviews in the tech industry? Connect with alumni, understand what to expect in an interview, and know the news and the company. Formulate your value position: where do you see yourself fitting in the company and what things would you would like to work on? The nice thing about the tech industry is that it’s very public. There’s a lot of things written about the tech industry from news to opinion pieces. |
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