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What roles did those people end up having after the MBA?

I think it’s more the opportunity cost potentially. Amount of lost income by not working for 2 years + can you get that $10k increase in salary by having 2 more years of experience

While having considered it, for me, unless you are planning to move to Business org, it seems an MS in something technical is more valuable, even in engineering management, or Product Management, just looking at the degrees people at my company have in those positions.

Is it the same at other places?

That's interesting! What would make it benefit in your opinion?

Is having non-CS a problem if it’s still STEM? I have a math BS

What is the false positive rate though?

The reason I’m considering it is because I’m trying to envision myself in 10-20 years and thinking who I would be happy to be.

Right now, I don’t believe what would make me happy is to be a principal/staff engineer somewhere necessarily.

Don’t get me wrong, I love programming, but I see it as me getting paid to solve problems, and not getting paid to write good code, and I think there are other ways to solve those problems. For example, I think the biggest problems in my organization are managerial and organizational rather than technical, and I feel like the type of training that would come with an MBA can help one solve those issues, including communication, planning, product validation, people management, etc.

That said, my entire reporting chain up to and including the CEO doesn’t have an MBA, so it’s not like it’s a prerequisite.

The other path I’m considering is an MS in CS/SE because while I’ve been an engineer for a few years, my undergrad is in Mathematics, and I’m worried it’ll be a limiter later on to not have a CS degree, but also only a BS.

How is this going to work with OpenGL's deprecation on MacOS?

Have you found it to be true? I guess in general have you found it to have been worth it.

One of my concerns is whether or not i’d be able to come back as an engineer as a fallback.

You could do that at the macOS level using karabiner for example. I have Caps lock as esc when tapped and Ctrl when held.

What was your main reason to pursue an MBA with the technical background? I'm considering it too at the moment.