They are relatively rare in big tech, and the culture of being nominally “anti MBA” is pretty aggressive in big tech, but there are a lot of them still there. I

They are relatively rare in big tech, and the culture of being nominally “anti MBA” is pretty aggressive in big tech, but there are a lot of them still there. I think there is some bias to not notice them because usually middle and upper management at big tech are the movers and shakers of 20 years ago during dotcom and such when the companies were growing rapidly and SV was a lot less corporate. And if you’re a peon, you probably don’t interact with management much beyond your director, which IMO tends to be a soft ceiling for advancement for technical non-mba types these days. It’s pretty common ATM for product managers to not have direct programming or software backgrounds and instead have a career like “MBB consultant -> MBA -> product manager”. Big tech companies also insource a lot of “strategy consulting” which are MBA types. And marketing/biz dev have plenty of MBAs too. While someone like a “director of engineering” probably doesn’t have an MBA, there’s a good chance their boss does (especially since these days VPs seem to mostly be former product managers rather than former software engineers). By the way, Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Andrew Jassy, and Cheryl Sandberg all have American MBAs.