I have been considering an MBA degree for a while. Ive got a Bachelors in Engineering from India (2009) and I have always liked the idea of going to school in the USA. It will definitely enhance my non technical overall soft skills. I could do with some of that. Besides that though, how will it benefit my career (promotion wise and financially)? I'd like to be technically involved even if I were to have an mba in the future. Im also at grade level 7, and I guess Im at the crossroads of which path I should pursue. Sal: 120k, stocks and bonus are just peanuts to even mention them. Job: Software Dev Engineer (doing cloud stuff at the moment) Location: Hillsboro, OR
If you get into top 10 odd schools then it's going to be great. Else it's totally wasted specially looking at how expensive it is.
Unless you get accepted to a top 5 program it’s useless. At a certain point in your career experience and ability to jump in and perform is more valuable than where you went to school. Also the further along you are in your career the harder it will be to see any sort of ROI. If you want to be a consultant or CFO, then probably makes sense if you can get into a good program.
Read a few books and take a few months off work if you must. There's your MBA. The rest is for networking. MBA doesn't really add resume points in tech anymore. Other business school MS degrees are more useful though since they give you a new tangible skillset. Financial engineering, quantitative econ, accounting, analytics in all its forms... They help build domain expertise to be used alongside your coding skills. Some are very bad investments though, like IT and entrepreneurship degrees.
Could you delve more into Business School MS degrees? Thats something ill research more on, especially if they are offered in any Portland schools.
Gives you a broad base in whatever the MS is in. Like how a SWE with a BS will know a bit of everything, vs someone who self studied LC and doesn't know a thing about kernels or cryptography. You see solutions and problems which others don't. Since these happen to be business school degrees, you may also get exposure to the mindset for pitching those solutions, even if learning how to make the pitch isn't part of a given program. For promotion policy in niche places that require MBAs, any business school grad degree usually checks the box if you can spin it. But you may still need to read those few easy MBA-substitute books to cover basics like accounting if they aren't in your program.
1) Do from top school else it’s waste of 150k. You might as as well give that money to me at 0% interest. At least u will get your capital back 2) after MBA go either in management consulting or finance. 3) to get into tech, you don’t need mba. Easier to learn in the job and supplement that with some side courses
Agree with the main point from others - go to a top school (Wharton, Sloan, Kellogg, Haas, Ross, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Stern, Anderson, Booth, Columbia... that's about it). And it's best value is to career change - hence the networking angle. Otherwise it actually slows you down. Spend those 2 years taking on roles that give you relevant experience rather than a useless degree. Whenever I post a job I get tons of people who say "I've been and engineer for 10 years and am just finishing my MBA. I'm a perfect fit for your senior level marketing job." Uh, no. Sorry.
I'll add tuck there as well maybe remove Haas.
Personally, I put Tuck, Darden, Fuqua and Haas together in the top of the next tier down. The only reason I include Haas in my list is because their proximity to the bay area has them catering more than the others to the tech community.
Go to top school like Wharton and you won’t regret
Don’t go to Portland state.
MBA is all about networking IMHO. Not worth it unless you go to a top business school.
Where do I network on a daily, weekly basis? Tech conferences and social events come around only so often.
Meetups