"Why having an over-simplified title/line-of-thought gets you more clicks" An MBA doesn't invalidate their previous experience. An MBA doesn't specialise a per

"Why having an over-simplified title/line-of-thought gets you more clicks" An MBA doesn't invalidate their previous experience. An MBA doesn't specialise a person or decreases his/her usefulness to only C-level positions (quite the opposite in my opinion, as they often acquire additional skills). An MBA doesn't make you a strategy guy/girl per se or makes you less an implementation person. Apart from the social pressure one -might- experience because of their achieving peers (and maybe even the financial pressure to pay off their debt), I only believe it increases a person's skills (be it soft, finance, ...) Eventually, it always boils down to peoples motivations to join X or Y. An MBA should at most encourage you (the recruiter/hiring person/... to ask some other questions during the hiring process. Next in the series I expect: "Why having worked for McK/BCG/Bain is a negative hiring signal (for startups)" "Why having investment banking experience is a negative hiring signal (for startups)" "Why having studied law is a negative hiring signal (for startups)" ...