I spent 7 years in the military, 5 post college as an officer, and was hired to FB straight after for a Program Manager role (Infra). Everything I've seen shows that if I had gone to get an MBA and came back to FB the only thing I would be is 2 years behind in tech yoe. Would I have had any advantage with an MBA? Non technical business teams seem to value them maybe but they also seem to be lower TC 🤷♂️ Does it matter when you get into tech management? TC 200k 5-7 yoe (non tech) + 1 yoe tech. Bay Area.
Not in tech roles. Maybe in business roles. But tech roles are better so no.
MBAs only matter for those that think they need them for visa purposes.
🤣😅 Not an issue. Born and raised in the US. Interesting point though.
Top 10 programs in America or you are wasting your time
I think it’s worth it to some who wanna make a career change. Me personally, I think it’s worth it. I don’t want to work in tech as I find it incredibly boring. I like managing money and want to help people do it better so an MBA would be great for me considering my background is in biochem
Working at FB is great, but if you are interested in the roles like corporate strategy, product manager, an MBA might be necessary.
Depends on what your goals are. For me, I see them as a waste of time, money and you've got to put in extra effort to get that piece of paper when you could be doing something more fulfilling with your time. But everyone's goals are different. Maybe if it's from one of the best MBA programs in the country it's worth it. Even then, I feel in tech we get paid so well that from a purely financial standpoint I can't get myself to care about putting in the effort towards an MBA. So I'd say it's good for people that don't know what to do with their time.
Broad answer is no but devil is in the details and depends what you want to do in life. Education in general a means to way and there are many examples wheee folks dropped out of schools and colleges and did really well. That said, education in different fields prepare you for different avenues in life. MBA does prepare you to think differently and holistically not just technically but financial, operations, marketing and other aspect of business. Since it’s a technology boom and even below average programmers are making lot of money you will get a different advise on this forum. I am an MBA myself and don’t either recommend or not recommend MBA since the answer depends on various things but most Greeks that believe coding is the way to get nirvana will surely conclude this don’t do it
I am SWE, I would like to stick to tech. From SWE, can I aim for CxO (CTO, CEO) without MBA? Does MBA help if I want to grow in SDM ladder? Or startup founding? Does MBA help if I want to grow in tech ladder like Principal Engineer/Fellow etc?
If your company pays for it and you want to do it part time make friends or connections as an adult, sure go for it. If you take time off for your MBA, it’s pretty much a glorified vacation. No one cares in tech, especially when they expect you have the leadership skills from military. Might be a little different in PM tho; float the idea to lots of your colleagues
Facebook actually does not pay for any education. Not a priority for them. Its probably the only benefit we don't have. I posted above but I think I'm more interested in getting more technically diverse. Learning about BE dev or product management in order to be more flexible. Definitely a given about the leadership part. I've heard a lot of folks years behind me talking about wanting an MBA first before coming to tech so part of this is to see what people have to say for their sake.
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only directly related parts of your background help get the job. An MBA would be to get new background via an internship. But it’s still a big waste in many ways despite your GI Bill benefits so if you can switch to what you want directly, do that instead.
You think it would be worth to get an Masters in CS or similar? Thinking of learning to code to better understand SW dev and product lifecycle / product management. Learning those skills seems to be a better investment in terms of making it to tech manager or high level IC?
Not clear what the goal is, if wanting to be a dev, MS should help, though there are other paths too. Amazon, for example, has an internal bootcamp to convert non-dev to dev after you’ve had 1 year in the company. idk much details but a recruiter might. Maybe FB has something similar. Or part time bootcamps too. Not sure what you mean by tech manager but product managers don’t generally need a coding background.