Another Thing Amazon Is Disrupting: Business-School Recruiting (foxbusiness.com) 42
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon, disrupter of industries from book selling to grocery shopping, has found its latest sector to upend -- recruiting at the nation's elite business schools. The Seattle-based retail giant is now the top recruiter at the business schools of Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University and University of California, Berkeley. It is the biggest internship destination for first-year M.B.A.s at the University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College and Duke. Amazon took in more interns from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business than either Bain & Co. or McKinsey & Co., which were until recently among the school's top hirers of interns, according to Madhav Rajan, Booth's dean. All told, Amazon has hired some 1,000 M.B.A.s in the past year, according to Miriam Park, Amazon's director of university programs -- a drop in the bucket for a company that plans to add 50,000 software developers in the next year. But Amazon's flood-the-zone approach to recruiting and hiring future M.B.A.s -- in some cases before they have taken a single business-school course -- is feeding the career frenzy on campus and rankling some rival recruiters. The talent wars begin even before classes do. This past June, Amazon sponsored an event at its Seattle headquarters for 650 soon-to-be first-year and returning women M.B.A. students, some of whom left the event with internship offers for summer 2018.
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Wow... (Score:2)
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Amazon tries to recruit me all the time so I guess their standards aren't so high.
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Not sure what they're hoping for. They've become a running gag around my workplace, what with us each getting contacted by Amazon recruiters every few weeks. The requests get trashed without further consideration by the vast majority of us, since none of us have heard good things about working at Amazon. After hearing about an MBA hiring spree, I suspect that even fewer of us would be inclined to join their ranks.
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There were several horror stories in the last year or two from folks in white collar positions.
I remember hearing one in particular about the working conditions surrounding the team that developed the Amazon Fire Phone and how they were grossly mistreated by their management and the executives. And at the end of it all, a lot of them were simply laid off after putting in crazy hours and sacrificing a lot to make that product happen, because the product failed to take off in the market for reasons out of the
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Sell Your Stock (Score:5, Informative)
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what kind of a person becomes MBA?
People that want to become managers. Most companies want to see managers that can demonstrate an ability to manage before getting promoted to management. This can be done with years in the business as a "non-management manager", such as a team leader, or with the MBA degree, usually both.
The Master of Business Administration degree is a graduate program, so people will have a degree in something before they apply. There's the pure business types that give MBAs a bad name that know nothing but what they l
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Unless, Amazon is starting a business consulting division...
MBA will hurt them and drive 100 hour work weeks (Score:2)
MBA will hurt them and drive 100 hour work weeks out of the tech team for 70K/year jobs bay area and 50-60K in the HQ 2 in a cheap to live area.
What? (Score:2)
They're recruiting a lot of people. Is that really disruption? I thought that meant doing something radically different and new.
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Maybe it's their methods -- throw a ton of money at the top 25% of MBA candidates for internships and see what sticks. You gain a database of these people and presumably a fair percentage actually take the internship, so you get to test drive them, too.
Do this for 5 years and you have a pretty good idea of who's worth a damn in senior leadership positions for the next 20 years.
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I thought the big banks and management consultancies already did that for years.
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They're recruiting a lot of people. Is that really disruption? I thought that meant doing something radically different and new.
The article uses disruption in an inaccurate, buzzwordy way, perhaps it's some sort of subtle dig at MBA-speak?
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The submitter, or maybe the editors.
The word doesn't appear in the linked foxbusiness.com article.
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Holy crap, are they screwed ... (Score:1)
Wow, all that managerial incompetence in one place should bring anything good at Amazon to a screeching halt.
Just think, thousands of idiots straight out of school with no proven ability, no experience in any actual field of work, and all making the same moronic assumptions they all learned in school but otherwise know nothing about.
Christ, send a fucking 1000 MBAs to China and you could probably cripple their entire economy. Because nobody know less about runni
Does nothing for state schools (Score:1)
Plz to be better (Score:1)
If you can cure that, I'm sure a cure for many other conditions can't be far behind. If you unleash all that monkey power onto all those keyboards, we'll surely have enough employment candidates to spice up all the markets - after all, I can count on one hand the number of MBAs I've met who can read an email, much less respond to it. A cure for that can only be to the benefit of