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Well then that's just inaccurate there are a lot of technically inclined managers coming out of École Polytechnique. If one really wanted to criticize the way
by carlob 14y ago
Well then that's just inaccurate there are a lot of technically inclined managers coming out of École Polytechnique.
If one really wanted to criticize the way these manager-engineers are educated I'd say they are too geared towards the public sector and large enterprises, but that's the aim of these schools anyway: to educate the highest ranking civil servants.
- rtpg 14y agoPolytechnique is one school that takes in 200 people a year. And they're definitely a different beast, mainly by the fact of being some of the smartest people in the country. But people going to Polytechnique are going there to become businessmen, rarely (if ever) to get their hands dirty in technical stuff. Their life is pretty well set from that school.
- carlob 14y agoMake that 500. Isn't it comparable to MIT that takes about 1000 undergraduates a year? Normalize by country population and you'll see that MIT is even more selective.