Context: Currently a fresher, with about a year of internship experience under my belt. Tech is my calling and I love doing this.
But, people (family especially) have been hounding me to get an MBA degree, I've managed to convince them I need a couple of years of work experience, which is appreciated in B schools.
But my UG is from a tier 3 private college, but it's there among the top private colleges. So my understanding/dilemma is that since my alma mater isn't there among the top, would it hinder my ascent up the ladder, since I don't have a tier 1 degree.
Dilemma:
(Not counting intern as professional experience) Answering dilemma points -
If you have a job in-hand go for it, even if you plan to go for MBA later, employability will improve. Once you join the professional world FT, you will learn about various functions and responsibilities. The skills gap and ways to plug. Overall, MBA is worth or not depends on you. At a population scale, the employability of MBA (especially T1) stands high and reflects the value creation.
The day you join, you will start acquiring people skills.
So many roles from marketing, operations to product. They won’t do the coding but would be expected be understand the product, customer and market.
Appreciate the clarity, thanks.
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