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by DelaneyM 10y ago
Demand & applicability != opportunity. Maybe it's chicken & egg, maybe it's a Unix philosophy applied to organizational design ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Do_One_Thing_a... ), but th
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It could also be your product.
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It depends on whether you want to end up in macro or micro business. If ultimately you want to be an entrepreneur, then try to sign on as an early/founding engineer with a qualified and capable business team. You'll learn most of
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That's very likely true, but it doesn't say much about the relative access each has to a VP office.
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Integrated supply chains are incredibly complex once you get to that level, and not really candidates for a new entrant. The big logistics players you list go after those contracts rabidly, and newly signed contracts have payoffs measured
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There are exceptions to every rule, but I'd say within the context of "jobs at existing large employers of MBAs and/or Engineers" the true intersection of engineer & business is nonexistent. (There are lots of places
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Not nearly as relevant/helpful it's often made out to be. Executives are more helpful than most give them credit for. If you're a credible contact with real experience, and authentically ask someone for input or advice, most
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This needs to be solved demand-side, not supply-side. If you graduated a class of TechMBAs right now they wouldn't have any jobs to use their new skills. Flip it around: if Google opened up a new role for "Active engineers with M
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A better 1:1 comparison is PM vs lead Engineer. They're at similar levels in the hierarchy. There are idiosyncratic and systematic ways to consider this statement. My personal belief is that it would be an easier path because I know m
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tl;dr: different markets & different needs It's not hard to get a dedicated fulfillment service once you've hit a decent size (say ~10k/day). But it's a very intensive sales process with long-term commitments. They
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Actually something I picked up in my summer at McKinsey. For web content, we think of "above/below the fold". For executives/investors, the analogue is "above/below the [first screen of my blackberry | iPhone
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> The mid/senior leadership of the best known companies hires all thr available techie MBAs. This is false, and also misses the point. I went through two recruiting cycles at HBS (Harvard Business School), which is one of the larges
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tl;dr: If there's no reason to get an MBA as a promotion-track engineer, then not only will none of your promoted engineers will have MBAs, none of your promoted MBAs will have practical experience being a great engineer. They wouldn&
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An MBA provides only one thing: the opportunity to stop doing engineering. Do you want to stop coding/building things, and instead build teams & business? Then do an MBA. There really is a lot to learn; it's not the irrelev
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Oh sure. Software eats fulfillment, basically. Currently FBA ( http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.ht... ) is a 3B$ business without any competitors. There are good reasons for that: it's capi
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> While I certainly see evidence of this in the workplace, I also see that this kind of leader would be exceptionally valuable to any organization. You'd think!! I have a few theories as to why this is so: The most charitable interp
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Cough solo founder. > The only truly successful technical leader is the founder,
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tl;dr: My first hire, and ideal cofounder, would be a really great CFO. (When I frame myself as a technical leader, there's a quick assumption that I don't grok sales/marketing. If I introduce myself as a "Harvard MBA &a
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tl;dr: in your situation many people go off and get an MBA. Don't do that. There's a reason there's only one CTO in HBS' 60,000 person alumni database (I am she.) I was a very hands-on CTO for years after a decade of c
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One asshole will harass 3-5 women over a career. Women make up ~15% of the workforce. Half of women are harassed. To get to those figures, only ~2% of men need to be assholes. This is why it's so important for the few men who see i
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Are you really suggesting that underrepresented groups are just less intelligent?