MBAs Hate Technology

Yes. MBAs do hate technology. I remember, in my project management class, when the Professor asked how many want that class to have a technology tint, three hands went up out of 80 students (Of course, one was mine). When he asked how many are afraid that this class would have technical tint, half of the class showed their apprehension by raising their trembling hands.

If a company wants to get the least number of applications during the campus interviews, all they have to do is to announce that they need a candidate with some technology focus. It explains why less than 50 applied for Microsoft whereas more than 100 applied for a company that couldn’t even come to campus as all students were placed before that, and that too at half of MS salary (very big sentence, eh?).

There will be focus groups of students gunning for Business Development roles / Finance / Consulting roles but I have never seen a focus group for core technology companies such as Amazon, Google and MS. Well… Most of them think that the come for MBA to escape from technology, even those who proudly called them hardcore techies till they got their admit at IIM/ISB.

A product manager (or even program manager) role could be more challenging and more exciting than any business development role … It requires a lot of MBA concepts to be deployed … MBAs… Think before discarding this area … FYI … Salary is also higher than Industry standards in these hardcore technology companies …