When I was working at a start up (not in the league of FAGM), which was just going to IPO 3 months later, I found on a network share a file that contained inter

When I was working at a start up (not in the league of FAGM), which was just going to IPO 3 months later, I found on a network share a file that contained interview feedback for different people. Thats what companies do when they interview a dozen for a job; they compare candidates against each other. This info is not given out to the public. I can recall two profiles from that file: one, white with an MBA from Kellogg; the other, Indian with an MBA from Cornell. They picked the Kellogg guy as a contractor for first three months, later converted him into full time. That's when I realized I should not get an MBA, since I won't get admitted to H/S/W MBA programs, even tho these schools tell everyone to apply in order to reduce the acceptance rate. The other issue is the kind of job you have: product management. Every guy in IT wanna move up; so, the first thing was told to these guys to get an MBA. (Now we have morning, evening and day time MBAs, on campus and off campus MBAs. Even Wharton is called MBA factory these days.) So, we have a glut of candidates in the product management. Top tier start ups don't like to deal with non-elite candidates. Here, eliteness = which MBA school one went to--whether Stanford/Harvard/Wharton; which company did he work for, if any. I remember a guy here, who worked at Yahoo in product mgmt; he is not white, but born in America; he did not not have an MBA from H/S/W, but from somewhere else. FB interviewed him and rejected him later. I know of one who graduated from Stanford GSB, and joined FB in the product management just before FB went to public. Product management jobs at top companies like Google and Facebook look for eliteness. So, just start talking to people, and get some referral and see how it goes.