Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
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Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#2Does this mean devs are more likely to be reporting to an MBA at AMZN?
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#3Does this mean devs are more likely to be reporting to an MBA at AMZN?
Maybe but probably not. In my experience, amazon clearly distinguishes between the "business side" and the "engineering side". All the MBAs end up on the business side.
They will, however, have a manager whose promotion path depends on how many MBAs can be persuaded to like them.
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#4Have a look here at their MBA landing page.
https://www.amazon.jobs/team/university-mba-graduate
I know that some people love to hate on MBA's but a couple of things:
- Amazon is a pretty data driven company, if MBA's provided no value, or negative value as some HN's readers seem to think, they wouldn't be hiring them.
- Jeff Bezos worked for a well known hedge fund before amazon, he's no stranger to having MBA's around.
- Most of these MBA's seem to be in operations, which makes alot of sense as one of the largest portions of an MBA degree is how to runa company:)
Amazon is also not alone in vacuuming up new MBA grads.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-amazon-hiring-mb...
Whether you want to admit it or not, MBA's provide a lot of value to larger organizations, tech or not.
At this point, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have all hired alot of MBA's in the past few years. These companies voted with their cash and made it very clear, MBA's provide alot of value.
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#5Does this mean devs are more likely to be reporting to an MBA at AMZN?
To work off of what saosebastiao said, most developers at Amazon are going to report to a team lead or engineering manager. Both of these are going to be technical people, whether they have an MBA or not (unlikely). So obviously if you move up high enough in the company you'll eventually report to someone non-technical, but the folks writing code for 80% of their day are almost certainly reporting to another developer.
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#6My understanding (from multiple sources) is that culturally speaking, you basically need an advanced degree (MBA, Exec MBA, etc) in order to reach a certain level of management at Amazon.
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#7Have a look here at their MBA landing page. https://www.amazon.jobs/team/university-mba-graduate I know that some people love to hate on MBA's but a couple of things: - Amazon is a pretty data driven company, if MBA's provided no value, or negative value as some HN's readers seem to think, they wouldn't be hiring them. - Jeff Bezos worked for a well known hedge fund before amazon, he's no stranger to having MBA's aro…
> negative value as some HN's readers seem to think, they wouldn't be hiring them.
HN's negative criticism is that MBAs don't know how to start things, not necessarily that they can't run things.
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#8> Amazon managers often prefer to employ MBAs over someone from a traditional background “because they value the deep analytics and fresh perspective of an MBA hire,” she wrote.
Considering the "deep analytics" and "fresh perspective" MBA managers I worked with and saw everywhere at amazon, I'm surprised anybody who works there could say such a thing. Deep analytics means nothing more than squinting at reports that other people created and pretending to understand, while fresh perspective means to treat every problem exactly the same. It's a hive mind of people who think they are quantitatively intelligent because they know what bps means.
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#9Does this mean devs are more likely to be reporting to an MBA at AMZN?
No, generally you report to a former engineer, even up to a VP level in most cases, in AWS its usually former engineers until you get to s-level.
edit: those people may have ALSO gotten an MBA
Re: Amazon is hiring the most MBAs in tech, and it’s not really close
#10Have a look here at their MBA landing page. https://www.amazon.jobs/team/university-mba-graduate I know that some people love to hate on MBA's but a couple of things: - Amazon is a pretty data driven company, if MBA's provided no value, or negative value as some HN's readers seem to think, they wouldn't be hiring them. - Jeff Bezos worked for a well known hedge fund before amazon, he's no stranger to having MBA's aro…
> negative value as some HN's readers seem to think, they wouldn't be hiring them. HN's negative criticism is that MBAs don't know how to start things, not necessarily that they can't run things.
Perhaps, but that gets translated into "an MBA is bad" mantra that's heard around here. It may be bad for starting things, but we can't all start things. It is what it is.