MBA Students: Amazon, Google Are Hiring, MS "Super Interesting," Apple "Sterile"

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Interesting stuff. I'm considering an MBA right now and am glad to hear there are good jobs at the intersection of business and tech.

As for Apple, I had a friend on the TimeMachine team and he said the same thing, it's a shitty place for developers.

And yet, Apple keeps putting out awesome products. It's totally counter-intuitive and counter the "coddle the engineers" thinking which dominates the valley.

John Gruber had an interesting explanation for this with his Auteur Theory of Design (with Steve at the top):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk3UcgbbmxQ

Ask HN: What is the ideal MBA to geek ratio in our industry? ;-)

Well, some MBAs could be geeks too and I think those totally belong in the industry.

Yes, but for ratio calculation purposes, should we count geek MBAs the same way as you count non-geek MBAs?

If a company has one non-geek MBA and 5 geeks, two of them also MBAs, what is the MBA-to-geek ratio?

The geek MBAs should count in both categories, of course. You have a 3:5 MBA-to-geek ratio in your example.

Yes, but if we count them as one geek and one MBA, they are being counted twice. Shouldn't we count them as 0.5 geek and 0.5 MBA?

Article would be better titled as "What a handful of MBA students I met with for drinks had to say about Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple".

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