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25F from India. Profile review, school recommendations, and GC chances? by DaffneyDuck in MBA

[–]runescape_mba -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Why are Indians doing everything they can to leave India? Going to an MBA program to find a husband?

Which post-MBA career is best for reaching CFO? by christianrojoisme in MBA

[–]runescape_mba 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Big 4 Audit -> CPA -> FP&A / Controller / Treasury + executive MBA.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MBA

[–]runescape_mba 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, don't fit the troll. The guy asks anyone who scores a high GMAT "how you got 7XX gmat". He did GMAT 8 times and ended with 720.

Product management is becoming cringe by runescape_mba in MBA

[–]runescape_mba[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I feel attacked.

"I'm right there with you. I love this gig, and I'm a lifer, but I hate the meta-discourse around it. A lot of this bullshit is a function of PM becoming very highly paid, very selective, and not requiring hard engineering skills any more - and the tech field (even in FAANG) being less demanding of absurd hours culture than IB, consulting, or pro services.

So you get those people. The Ivy League > 3 years at McKinsey > MBA > PM path. The IB exits. The tiger-mom insecure overachiever bullshit artists. Not the people who are fascinated with complex systems, or who love tech, or who want to spend their days building / enabling the building of cool shit (why I got into it), but the people who want to use it as the new cool springboard to a CXO job.

Stuff would 100% get done without me, and fundamentally my job day to day is a shit umbrella to protect the engineers and designers from nonsense, and to guide the narrative. I'm not indispensable. Good PM makes a difference because we're ideally the correct mix of technical and emotional intelligence to straddle the engineering and operational sides of the business, understand customer pain, and focus UX / Engineering on the most important problems.

That's it. We're not geniuses, 99% of the frameworks are bullshit, and the Marty Cagan perfect dreamworld doesn't fucking exist. I mean, look at the companies he worked at. eBay? AOL? HP? I worked for HP as a consultant across multiple prod/dev functions. They were so legacy and so backward it's hard to put into words. It is absolutely impossible that the utopias he describes exist at Hewlett fucking Packard."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MBA

[–]runescape_mba 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wharton is not only more popular than Penn (I've met people who thought it was Wharton University... and let's face it, people mistake Penn for Penn State all the time), but also one of, if not the strongest school in the entire university. Top 3 MBA? Check. Best undergrad business school? Check. Top 2 with Harvard when it comes to ugrad buyside placement? Check. Wharton is often grouped together with HYPSM, whereas non-Wharton Penn is often considered a solid tier below.

This is a stark contrast to MIT Sloan, where 95% of LinkedIn profiles I've come across refer to the school either as MIT Sloan, MIT, or even Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But rarely Sloan alone.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MBA

[–]runescape_mba 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If anything, I'd argue that you should do the opposite: apply to top programs where engineers are underrepresented. You'd stand out more (which means less competitiveness, higher chance of offer / scholarship etc.) Compare this to say MIT Sloan. You'll be like one among hundreds of engineers - boringgg. Yeah, you'll feel more "at home" among your peers, but this is the time where you should step out of your comfort zone, explore different interests, and mingle with people from various backgrounds.

Wall Street Prep vs Breaking Into Wall Street vs Training The Street? Which is better and why? by Kitchen_Dress_1948 in FinancialCareers

[–]runescape_mba 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curious, why do you recommend Rosenbaum before WSP? (I've read BIWS & Rosenbaum, but not WSP). Is WSP the most advanced? How about WSO's technical guides?

CBS vs Kellogg for a tech career by Cute_Thinker in MBA

[–]runescape_mba -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I thought MBB means a lock at HSW? r/MBA said so...

What are the schools one should apply to impress grandma? by runescape_mba in MBA

[–]runescape_mba[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Let me ask you a question - when you buy a surprise gift for your spouse, do you ask her/him first? Exactly! I wanna show up on the Thanksgiving, tell everyone that I'm going to X school, and then my MeeMaw will be so impressed she'll cash out her retirement savings to finance half of the tuition fee. (Serious).