23-Year-Old Salesforce Employee Trusts Her Instincts in Pursuing an MBA

At 23, Tanya was applying to business school despite conventional advice to wait. She had over two years of experience at Salesforce and was drawn to Cambridge Judge Business School for its diverse perspectives and ecosystem where engineers, researchers, and investors intersect.

Tanya realized she wanted to learn how leaders decide which problems are worth solving in the first place, not just how technology solves them. She took a weekend trip to Varkala, India, after submitting her application, which helped her clear her thinking and write about herself honestly for the first time.

When asked about her timing, Tanya said she wasn't waiting for anything specific but trusted her own instincts instead of following conventional advice. She wrote her MBA essays herself, making connections between moments that had never seemed related before and discovering a narrative that was truly hers.