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Probably not. There have just been lots of bad MBAs in the last couple years that make clueless business decisions, and we've probably suffered under the hands
by iamwil 17y ago
Probably not. There have just been lots of bad MBAs in the last couple years that make clueless business decisions, and we've probably suffered under the hands of one at one time or another. Like asking to measure productivity in the number of lines of code. Sure, it might seem like it makes sense, but it'll soon be apparent it doesn't if you've tried to code at all, even just a little bit.
Having a business sense is great. But when you get MBAs that think that's all there is, it makes for bad business decisions that engineers have suffered under. Having some grasp of the actual nature of the business that you're in will go a long way.
- billswift 17y agoI voted you up, but you made one mistake; it should have "MBAs in the last couple of decades that made clueless business decisions". I have been reading almost identical complaints about the lack of real value in the MBA since the early 1990s.
- iamwil 17y agoThanks, but I haven't lived long enough to see MBAs in the 90's. I've only started working in the 2000's. I've heard that was the case, but I never looked into what happened in the 90's. Thanks for the heads up.