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Nathalie McGrath, Laura Moore (Development Office) and I traveled up to Seattle to meet with our recruiting partners at Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, and Maveron (VC firm). This summer we have quite a few interns working in Seattle. It was a great opportunity for us to hear about their plans for recruiting next year and get a sense of the job climate.

We also had a small networking event from alumni and MBAs where we got the inside scoop on corporate culture, internship programs, and living in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle is a beautiful city with great food, fantastic views, and easy access to recreation.

If you have company suggestions for future Seattle meetings, we’d love to hear them! Simply comment on this blog.

Here are a few notes from the field.

Starbucks

• Looking  to re-start an MBA intern program, hopefully hire more interns next year
• Starbucks is run by categories. Food, Merchandise, Espresso drinks, Blended drinks. Each category has their own marketing team.  There is also an international team
• Focus on Seattle’s Best brand so lots of potential hiring in that group

Microsoft

• Love fresh ideas from innovative MBAs. Continue to target Stanford MBAs with tech, marketing, finance background
• Full time hiring typically happens just in time
• Hire from Wharton, Sloan, HBS, GSB
• Looking for MBA’s interested in returning to China after a few years in US

Amazon

• Lab126 will continue to hire MBA’s (in Bay Area)
• Want more Stanford MBAs – especially those excited to move to Seattle area
• Alumni there have been able to move groups within company

Maveron

• 3 investment people in the Seattle office, 2 in the SF office
• Fund was started in 1998 by Howard Schultz – 1^st investment was eBay
• Areas specialize in: Web consumers services, Financial services, Education, Wellness, Retail