Not sure who you're talking to, but the answers to this are pretty straightforward. If you're only ever planning to work at or run small companies, an MBA is n

Not sure who you're talking to, but the answers to this are pretty straightforward. If you're only ever planning to work at or run small companies, an MBA is not for you. That's not what it was originally designed for, nor what it's meant for today regardless of what the program marketing says. If that's you, then instead you should take some community college or online classes in basic finance, accounting, statistics, and microeconomics, then spend some hands-on time learning how small business marketing and sales actually work in the real world. Where an MBA will help you is if you do not have a business background, but want to either run a company that will one day be medium-large or work directly at a medium-large company. If that's you, a decent MBA program will teach you how large businesses actually operate - how they're structured, how they measure performance, how they interact with shareholders, how they make financial decisions, how they choose which market strategies to pursue, etc. - and how you can talk with and interact with other executives without being a naïve "engineering is the only thing that matters" idiot. Additionally, if a large company career path is for you, the network and credentials that come with a high-tier MBA tend to pay for themselves because outside of tech, hiring and job hopping don't depend on github profiles and whiteboard coding to get $250K+/year jobs.