By Shandana Mufti

Receiving and accepting job offers for life after graduation always brings a sense of relief. Prachi Bhansali (MSCS ’16) recently felt that relief after accepting a position at Google, where she will be working after she graduates in December.

“My department is amazing,” she wrote in an email interview. “The courses I took along with all the help I received from my co-op advisor played a significant role in getting the offer.”

Before joining Northeastern, Prachi completed her undergraduate studies in computer engineering at India’s Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute. During her time as a CCIS student, she completed co-ops at Bloomberg in New York City and Google in San Francisco. At Bloomberg, she worked for three months as a software engineering co-op. She spent five months at Google, also as a software engineering co-op, where one of her projects was migrating to a new system for the Google Cloud Platform.

Prachi was offered a full-time position at Google at the end of her co-op job.

She credits CCIS’ co-op program and its faculty and staff for helping her land a position at her dream company.

“There is a lot of help from the faculty and advisors, we just need to be determined to achieve our goals,” she says. “Google has always been the company I wanted to work for.”