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Memoirs from a Disgruntled MBA
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Memoirs from a Disgruntled MBA
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#2How are MBA programs so behind? I mean, talented/successful entrepreneurs flock to the teaching positions at top MBA programs. Why do they remain to set in their ways?
A question for you all you disgruntled MBA's -- how do you make MBA programs more agile/nimble?
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#3How are MBA programs so behind? I mean, talented/successful entrepreneurs flock to the teaching positions at top MBA programs. Why do they remain to set in their ways? A question for you all you disgruntled MBA's -- how do you make MBA programs more agile/nimble?
Steve Blank's customer development process may be the only example of anything agile taught at business schools.
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#4#1 makes no sense. Facebook/Google/Zynga/etc pay hires more because they can no longer offer hires significant equity, like an early startup can. A startup is never going to beat an established company on pay, it's going to beat it on equity. If an offer of significant equity doesn't convince a potential developer to come onboard, perhaps the problem is that the company isn't promising enough.
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#5The real problem is not what you think. The real problem is that some employers (MBA's?) don't know how to recognise and employ technical talent. There's talent around, it's not too hard to employ. It's just that some employers have the wrong set of measures of people.
I spend all my time finding great people who are often knocked back after a set of selection criteria is applied that often filters out good people.
So Lloyd I am afraid that the problem is not the fault of Google or LinkedIn or job boards, it's that you're not recognising the great people because your assessment process is probably flawed.
How about you post here your technical interview questions and your requirements and the tests that you give people?
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#6#1 makes no sense. Facebook/Google/Zynga/etc pay hires more because they can no longer offer hires significant equity, like an early startup can. A startup is never going to beat an established company on pay, it's going to beat it on equity. If an offer of significant equity doesn't convince a potential developer to come onboard, perhaps the problem is that the company isn't promising enough.
Couldn't agree more. A startup, headed up by an MBA no less, is somehow more innovative than a hothouse of talent and capital?
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#7I honestly can't comprehend someone writing #1 as anything but a joke. You're seriously upset that Google can afford to hire good talent and doesn't treat its employees like shit?
Also, "Shame on you for not squeezing salaries to cut your costs" is not a way to attract good developers.
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#8The real problem is not what you think. The real problem is that some employers (MBA's?) don't know how to recognise and employ technical talent. There's talent around, it's not too hard to employ. It's just that some employers have the wrong set of measures of people. I spend all my time finding great people who are often knocked back after a set of selection criteria is applied that often filters out good people. S…
In my hunting for a job, the three most annoying things that some employers do to potential tech talent:
- Instant rejection for missing one of a laundry list of technologies. There's no desire to grow people into positions.
- Long competency tests that are really a test of your ability to recall or search for solutions/trivia.
- Zero feedback. Completely relying on the job-seeker to follow up.
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#9#1 makes no sense. Facebook/Google/Zynga/etc pay hires more because they can no longer offer hires significant equity, like an early startup can. A startup is never going to beat an established company on pay, it's going to beat it on equity. If an offer of significant equity doesn't convince a potential developer to come onboard, perhaps the problem is that the company isn't promising enough.
Agreed. I almost questioned whether this post was a parody, instead of a genuine example of the entitled generation.
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#10I honestly can't comprehend someone writing #1 as anything but a joke. You're seriously upset that Google can afford to hire good talent and doesn't treat its employees like shit? Also, "Shame on you for not squeezing salaries to cut your costs" is not a way to attract good developers.
I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt here, because sarcasm is notoriously hard to transmit through text. I think he's being tongue-in-cheek while complaining that hiring is difficult because Google/Facebook/etc have collectively raised the bar about what sort of compensation is expected to levels that are hard for him to match.