This will be controversial. But what we are witnessing in tech today is exactly the kind of volatility these expansionists, most of them biz school graduates, advocated since the last Great Recession. Since 2008 there’s been a tectonic shift in biz school grads “dream employer list”, literally from I-banks to techs, East to west. It’s all good until you realize, they bring with them the morbid expansionist doctrines. For the last 10+ yrs we’ve witnessed hiring based on synthetic requirements. Tons of support engineering projects that handily lead to org sizes on par, if not beyond, product engineering. For those capable, loads of experimental products beyond the company’s main line of business. Every company creates an AI/ML division, etc etc etc. I’m not saying these are not necessary. But judging from the scale that these expansions are being done, they are synthetic rather than naturally called for. Those are debts that will have to be repaid when time doesn’t go as well as planned, and in some cases, that’s exactly what the “expansionists” planned. They aim for the short-term KPIs, which in some cases are literally just “Hire more”. These ridiculous recruits need to stop. Techs should go back to hiring people with technical ideas, who are humble enough to say “I don’t know until I see more”. Not HBR readers, or people who excel at editing their LinkedIn profiles. Not people who spent 5 mins reading an article and then can talk for 30mins about it
Very well said
Satya Nadella has an MBA. Stop it.
So does Sundar and Tim.
MBAs shld never get into leadership
I liked the words I read here.
Product Managers do not need MBAs. In fact, when I was at Amazon those were the worst ones. And Amazon loves mba pMs.
I just got hired as a product manager and the only thing the hiring team cared about was that I was that I had strong domain knowledge in the product and knew the typical customer well enough to know what they want.
Ok? So? I said they hired a lot of MBAs. You might not be an MBA. Both can be true
So you're saying instead of hiring Jack and Jim, then paying them both a 1000$ for a year, then fire Jim, you're saying don't hire Jim in the first place and don't pay even that 1000$. That's fair. Make this post when the next crazy hiring happens.
I’m saying don’t hire Jim if the first thing he says during interview is about hiring a team of Jacks because he can immediately come up with a spreadsheet of KPIs, before he even got hired. That’s how biz school teach them “to impress” and that’s toxic, in most cases that I’ve witnessed
This is true. MBAs generally have the alpha a-hole types and these people have changed the tech culture. Tech was better with 30 percent lower salary while these aholes were ducking around on Wall Street for 80 hour workweeks.
Tech bros from a B level school and coding folks in Apple get paid almost twice than a Wharton MBA for similar level and yoe. And those high TCs are also the reason lay-offs are happening.
Satya Jack Ma Sheryl are all from the 90s. Now tech has evolved and blossomed. Aint in its nascent stage. So I guess MBAs are redundant
Yeah, MBA folks are more gung ho about AI and ML than the engineers themselves who built it
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We just need more people who can see beyond tech.
You can find some!