I've found that there is a certain type of engineer who falls prey to their own arrogance. They are good at the job so they don't see the value in having someon

I've found that there is a certain type of engineer who falls prey to their own arrogance. They are good at the job so they don't see the value in having someone else come in to tell them what they should be doing. As far as they see it an MBA isn't doing anything special that they couldn't do themselves. You see the same thing with developers who don't see the point in UX people. Being good enough (which is not the same as being good) at something often makes people believe that something is easier than it actually is. In some respects they're right. If you are a team lead, you could probably do most of what an MBA does. If you have finished an undergrad CS degree you can definitely finish Business School. It's just that this point completely neglects the fact that if you could do all the management tasks AND develop at the same time, your company probably wouldn't be paying a MBA an exorbitant amount of money to do the management work. Yeah a lot of times it seems like management just moves from pointless meeting to pointless meeting especially as an engineer sitting in on them, but that flow of information between stakeholders is incredibly important. It's absolutely inefficient, but unfortunately there's often not a better way. Like 90% of management responsibilities are just coordinating and communicating.