I quit the tech industry

Re:I quit the tech industry by ryandrake on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:42PM (#9693950)

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?

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Re:I quit the tech industry by eastbayjake on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:33PM (#9694343)

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.

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Re:I quit the tech industry by walshemj on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:52PM (#9695289)

I think its the ones who do a BSC and immediately do a MBA without the required 10 years so or so in a real job - that they don't want to hire.

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