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Another Thing Amazon Is Disrupting: Business-School Recruiting (foxbusiness.com)
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.
Amazon tries to recruit me all the time so I guess their standards aren't so high.
All of those MBA's are going to destroy the company with their "case studies" (i.e. anecdotes), buzzwords, and group-think.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
They never try to recruit me ;'( so their standards are at least a little 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.
I just watched The Founder a few weeks back. FWIW, Ray Kroc didn't have a fondness for MBAs and for awhile refused to hire them. I suppose this all depends on your opinion of Ray Kroc, but it's hard to deny his business successes he was able to obtain without them. Jeff Bezos himself graduated with EE and CS degrees.