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http://www.quora.com/Are-top-tier-management-consultants-looked-down-upon-in-Silicon-Valley-If-so-why
from this post:
A back-of-the-envelope analysis
I think I understand why Silicon Valley tech start-up types are leery of MBA-toting consultants. I gather that many of the former often think that the latter are some combination of:
Money-hungry; driven by the "wrong" things
Superficial / shallow; entitled (they feel entitled to receiving lots of pay, lots of respect, lots of cushiony treatment, that sort of thing)
Smart only in a dirty, "corporate" way, not in an honest way
Fluffy: capable of turning out pretty slide decks with zero content; good at talking game, poor at execution
I have met consultants who are like this, yes, but I've met people who don't have MBAs and weren't ever consultants and who are like this. One could argue that more consultants are like this than non-consultants are, but I'm betting there's a confirmation bias embedded there. And how we love putting down people who lack our skills, and downplaying the skills they have that we don't have.
Let's look at stereotypes of Silicon Valley start-up types.
Former engineers. Coding geeks. Super-tech-savvy. Mostly male.
Convinced that their idea is going to change the world, even though no one else thinks it is.
The flipside of these things? Think back to high school. These qualities were associated with socially isolated kids who didn't really have great social skills, who didn't know how to interact with a lot of people, who had very deep and narrow expertise... and a host of other, even more unkind things.
But just as it would be both insulting and misguided to think that a Silicon Valley entrepreneur is trying enact his version of geek-revenge, it is insulting and misguided to dismiss anyone based on stereotypes.
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