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There are some engineering management (quite the oxymoron...) degrees, see https://www.mempc.org/engineering-management-programs/ https://www.mempc.org/engineer
by jbn 6y ago
There are some engineering management (quite the oxymoron...) degrees, see https://www.mempc.org/engineering-management-programs/ https://www.mempc.org/engineering-management-programs/ (full disclosure, I attended one such program also I did not slip onto the dark side!).
It's quite funny (or sad, depending on your point of view) that at the same time large companies are desperate to find technical leaders, yet the middle-management layer is filled with MBAs that prevent engineering managers from even existing. There's definitely a glass ceiling there.
Some companies have come up with a partial solution to this antagonistic need, they invented the "Product Manager" position (or "PM"), which is a kind of not-so-technical engineering position (who does not and cannot really "manage" anything)... and then filled those positions with technically inept MBAs.
Unfortunately, an MBA is a degree in nothing of substance (See Mintzberg), so technical acumen cannot come from the MBA per se.