It depends on what you want to do. I stayed on the IC track and rose to a staff/principal level role in big tech. I worked with quite a few MBAs, mostly produc

It depends on what you want to do. I stayed on the IC track and rose to a staff/principal level role in big tech. I worked with quite a few MBAs, mostly product or program managers or directors who managed PMs. I don’t have an MBA, and the ROI isn’t clear to me. Maybe it was just a cultural problem at my last company, but many of these MBA types wrote documents on often cringy or useless features that they’d claim will “delight customers”. Customers hated most of these product features and and saw them as privacy violations. It’s entirely possible there are more successful MBAs and my specific company perhaps didn’t have the top MBA talent.