Has anyone read the NYT article about Amazon hiring a lot of MBAs for product management roles? Wander what Amazon employees think about it. Good/bad/ugly...
Dont like the MBAs in pathways operations. Theyre lacking people skills
SDEs are amazing at people skills tho
Can't find it
It's actually WSJ. "Another thing Amazon is disrupting: business school recruiting"
I am pretty hard on MBAS as we often need them to unlearn a lot of what they learn in MBA school. I have to teach them to express themselves in a 6 page thoughtful doc that really dives deep regather than presenting fluff.
Then, you should teach at Harvard or you must have hired a bunch of unqualified candidates from bad MBA schools.
Not understanding your point. We do attract graduates from top tier MBA schools. Actually, Ivy League schools are the main ones I have had trouble with - especially those from Harvard. They are often not as agile and flexible as required in our fast paced culture although I’m sure they do well at the MSFT country club
I passed the l6 onsites, but was told they require a degree for most l6 PM roles (which I don't have). Now I'm stuck in some sort of team-matching limbo waiting for a hm to "overlook" that requirement...
That’s odd. As somewhere who is on a team that hires a lot of PM-Ts, I could care less about an MBA if they can pass the tech bar and have the appropriate experience driving product to launch. What position did you interview for - it obviously wasn’t a PM position. We don’t normally go through a matching process unless it’s for an MBA position. You normally interview for a specific position.
Sr PM, l6. It was part of a "pm recruiting event", with the potential for me to choose which team I wanted to join. I'm told it's not the typical process already. Business, hardlines, & retail were the orgs.
That’s crazy. I was unfamiliar with this program. Sounds poorly ran and a bad experience for candidates s if we are leaving them in limbo and telling them after the fact that most teams require MB degrees. Should the OP reach out and have informationals with HMs?
Amazon has a lot of positions that aren't straight tech - there's a lot of deal making that needs to happen between the enterprise cloud business, the entertainment business, and the merchandising business. I'm happy to have MBAs doing that - the average MBA is MUCH better at it than the average engineer