Re:I quit the tech industry
by thwarted on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:27PM
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It's more appropriate to take a "no MBAs" rule as "no one who self identifies primarily as having an MBA". In my experience, an engineer with an MBA who neglects to even mention their engineering schooling/experience in favor of the MBA is a rare animal.
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Self-identifies primarily as having an MBA? I don't even know what that means. If I interview with your company, should I not mention the MBA and instead say that during my 15 years of writing software, I took two years off to go wind surfing? Really? That's considered better?
Re:I quit the tech industry
by eastbayjake on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:33PM
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I think the parent comment meant "self-identifies" as "your only qualification for this job is an MBA", not that you would hide having an MBA. If you wrote software for 15 years and applied for a job in tech, I would imagine the software experience was on your resume alongside the MBA -- you're not just an MBA who wants to get into tech because tech is hot but with no prior industry exposure, someone who could equally likely go be a VP of Paper Product Distribution at a Midwest conglomerate.