>if you get an MBA from Stanford GSB/Harvard BS you can join as an associate at McKinsey/Bain/BCG, then jump to Apple/Google/Netapp as a VP/Senior Director of S

>if you get an MBA from Stanford GSB/Harvard BS you can join as an associate at McKinsey/Bain/BCG, then jump to Apple/Google/Netapp as a VP/Senior Director of Strategy This is laughably inaccurate. Or maybe the big three have done such a great job at marketing that people on HN think this. To bring things back to reality, your typical MBA associate joining a top 3 consulting firm is going to be at roughly the same level as an equivalent MS grad and/or someone with a few of years of tech experience joining FAANG. i.e., Someone in the L4-L5 territory based on profile variations. Nobody is jumping from associate to VP.