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I, for one, sometimes miss the knowledge that an MBA might give me. I'm a technical CTO and I have some trouble with long term planning, budget, managing people, etc.
You really don't need to do an MBA to learn those things. Of the 3, two can be learnt in a week. Managing people is a lot harder!
Finally, he says something I can agree with. MBAs are for optimizing stable firms. They're walking death for startups, I personally have seen it happen.
Some MBAs are pretty good, although I suspect it’s mostly selection bias (the people would’ve been great even without attending b school).
While I'm not certain, I have a feeling the new GSuite logos and the release of Web Stories were decisions made by MBA's and not engineers.
FAANG - i think in this list only Google and Apple are run by MBAs.
He is onto something there. Bean counting is useful and companies cannot survive without good cashflow, but it should not become Mission A of the company, or engineering (and other) talent will look elsewhere. If one company's de facto mission statement is "We want to grow our market by 8.2 per cent and give our bosses higher Christmas bonuses" and another one comes and says "Guys, we want to fly to fscking Mars!", c…
There's 3 things that I judge an employer by
1) Sector the company is in (Space, electric cars - Yay)
2) Revenue/Growth of the company (pie grows, does your share?)
3) Company culture (that's catch-all, but if you want a negative see that "don't hire the hot girl" guy)
A lot of ways I care more about the sector, because that's the thing I cannot hope to influence, but the rest is actually open to improvement if you're high enough on the ladder.
I think the "bean counting led" is a failure on #3, but might be a win on #2.
FAANG - i think in this list only Google and Apple are run by MBAs.
Finally, he says something I can agree with. MBAs are for optimizing stable firms. They're walking death for startups, I personally have seen it happen.
FAANG - i think in this list only Google and Apple are run by MBAs.
I, for one, sometimes miss the knowledge that an MBA might give me. I'm a technical CTO and I have some trouble with long term planning, budget, managing people, etc.