Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by boringg on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:03PM (#28992430)

I always find it funny that MBAs struggle with math and that so many MBAs aren't actually that good at excel. It seems like it is a core tenant of success of the program. I fully understand that business isn't strictly math and there are so many other dimensions of importance. However in its purest form, it is mathematical.

Then again I guess you could always buy talent to shore up your insecurities.

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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by ativzzz on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:51PM (#28993599)

Expert Excel proficiency is mostly useful in data heavy roles such as finance, which is just one subset of MBAs. For other roles, it's useful to be able to calculate simple sums/averages/vlookups but going beyond that is outside of their required skillset

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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by ghaff on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:06PM (#28993729)

I've done big spreadsheets over the years in product management and other roles. But they've never been especially complicated--certainly not in the stereotypical complex models sense.

Honestly, anyone who goes into the corporate world and, outside of pure creative roles, thinks they never will have to deal with big spreadsheets associated with budgets, sales forecasts, and the like is going to be very disappointed. But that doesn't mean most people need to deal with anything that's complex mathematically.

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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by boringg on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:00AM (#29000466)

No but they do need to be able to be comfortable with mathematics and need to be able to make sure their models are correct. Which I would argue is not always the case.

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