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Extraordinary Challenges for High-Caliber MBA Students

Genentech recruits high-caliber MBA talent from leading universities across the United States for our MBA Internship Program, an intensive 10-12 week opportunity in which you'll enjoy hands-on work within a fast-paced and challenging environment. You'll receive crucial firsthand business experience that will position you as a valuable team contributor with a head start in the biotechnology industry.

To qualify for an MBA internship, Genentech prefers that you are currently enrolled in an accredited business school program and have four to six years work experience prior to graduate school in the following disciplines:

• Sales and marketing
• Operations
• Consulting
• Finance

Ideally, we hire those with prior work experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical or healthcare industries.

Program Highlights

• Exposure to challenging, business-critical projects
• An opportunity to present end-of-summer project findings to senior management
• Networking opportunities
• Career development panels
• Social events (San Francisco Giants game and intern lunches)
• Intern video contest
• VP Lunch and Learn speaker series, which introduces interns to senior management across Genentech
• MBA Intern speaker series

Genentech also pulls heavily from its internship talent pool to fill full-time opportunities.

Application Process

Genentech recruits on university campuses during the fall and spring sessions. To determine if we will be attending your school, contact your careers center for details specific to your campus. MBA Internship opportunities are also posted at select universities, and annual application deadlines are included in posted opportunities.

If we will not be interviewing at your university, please view the internship and co-op opportunities posted on our site. All applicants will receive email notification when their information is received. Hiring managers then contact qualified candidates of interest directly.

MBA graduates should consider our full time rotation programs in Commercial and Finance.