I sincerely need your advice on my case. I'm a Big4 TAS manager in the bay area with 6+ years experience, having CFA, CPA and FRM, and received offer from Amazon as a Sr. Financial Analyst. I tried interviews for Corp Dev roles but not successful, one company offered me the position Corp Dev Associate, I'm still debating whether I should accept it. Last month I took GMAT and scored 690. My long-term goal is to do start-ups (co-founder or joining an early-stage start-up). Can I please obtain advice regarding the following 2 options: a. Stay at TAS, apply next year to a full-time MBA business school then jump into IBD/Corp Dev, then join start-up. b. Join Amazon, and apply for a part-time MBA degree in Berkley. Leveraging the network at Berkley and Amazon to find start-up opportunities. However, I don't know whether part-time MBAs are interested in start-ups.
Can you please provide some advice? Thank you all!
Def join Amazon. That’s a great opportunity and will help with recruiting for MBA.
Thank you for the feedback! Do you have any advice for you regarding full-time MBA vs Part-time MBA?
I'll talk about IBD since I don't know much about Corp Dev. Since you're already 6+ years deep into the work force, I'd keep in mind the age of the applicant pool for IBD since you'll be recruiting for Associates but tbh shouldn't be too big of a problem unless you're 30+ i think. Amazon/part-time Haas/IBD recruiting is gonna be a lot of coordination since you'll be doing a summer associates role while at Amazon. A good idea may be to stay at Amazon for a year before attending Haas full/part time and recruiting for IBD. Looking for some other opinions here too. Don't know useful/logical this is in practice but just my 2 cents.
Thank you! These are very helpful insights. I'm 30 this year and you're right, if I go to IBD as associate after MBA, that will be around 32-33....competing with young ones coming straight into IBD after graduation.
I hate this site.... My guy you have the experience and resume to do a lot already....
With that said, if you want to go work for a startup, why don't you go do that now? You have TAS experience, I'm sure with some networking and applying, you could get a job now. Alternatively, go get your MBA now and move straight to a startup. Why wait if that's what you want to do?
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