研发工程师申请MBA合适吗？

小胡子乖乖

大概看了一下各个学校的申请成功者，似乎没有纯做研发工程师的。
请论坛上MBA在读的朋友关心一下，六年以上的研发工程师，直接申请MBA，有成功先例吗？
从我了解到，大部分即使是工程师背景，也是做技术支持，或者工程师转销售，或者BD那种。

仔细想了想，工程师好像很难回答why mba这个问题。

phenomena

有些学校据说比较喜欢engineer，象MIT或hass。工程师要回答why mba并不难，只不过在如今大批优秀商界人才涌入学校的情况下，工程师想进top school还是蛮难的。

robottiger

做纯粹研发的进Top MBA的很多~楼主放心申请吧~

shuxuehai

Me too, system engineering, purely technical...

小胡子乖乖

谢谢鼓励。
我相信工程师应该是有的，但是，听说都是两三年为主。
像我做了六年研发，现在开始申请，入学的时候就是七八年研发经历了。年纪也不小，到时候也有30了。
担心商学院怀疑，我这样的能不能成功转型。

wei2009

To lz,

I am a technical support engineer before MBA. Although, I don't know any R&D engineer who applies to MBA(my R&D engieer friends usually enjoy what they are doing), I believe you still have chances. That's depends on how you show your interest in business, and how you demonstrate your communication skills. Generally speaking, technical support or sales engineers can easily demonstrate their communication skills which are very important in the business world; while for R&D engineers, it is a little difficult to show good soft skills. that is what you need to pay attention to and work on. Basically, we all belong to the pool of engineer, no matter R&D, application, software engineers or product engineer; no matter which industry we are from; we are all engineers.

Good luck! Think about it seriously, by yourself, if you don't like the profession as an engineer, what else do you like? does it have to be business or you are only attracted by the so-called big money? (MBA does not mean good pay.) if you truly want to do something in business, no matter what you did before, present it well and the experience only adds your diversity to the school.

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/7/20 19:04:07编辑过]

phenomena

年龄必然会成为一个因素，尤其是LZ如果想改行的话。从LZ的发言来看，对MBA关注的时间也并不算太长，要整理出有力的essay有可能会花费不少时间。如果非要进top mba的话，不仅要在GT分数上表现出众，最好application package的组织也请教一下专业人士的意见。

caesar2005

以下是引用phenomena在2009/7/20 19:03:00的发言：
年龄必然会成为一个因素，尤其是LZ如果想改行的话。从LZ的发言来看，对MBA关注的时间也并不算太长，要整理出有力的essay有可能会花费不少时间。如果非要进top mba的话，不仅要在GT分数上表现出众，最好application package的组织也请教一下专业人士的意见。

顶。

读mba，什么背景都可以了，关键是你如何包装自己。

missilezy

做技术很好啊，我之前是process engineer，天天在大工厂泡着，纯技术，和business，管理八竿子打不着，还不如研发好听呢，申请了4个亚洲商学院，拿到4个offer，目前在一家consulting firm（虽然和M和B不能比，但规模上也算全球最大了）暑期实习。做技术的如果好好准备，仔细揣摩，申请上可以变成很大优势，看你水平了。

[此贴子已经被作者于2009/7/21 12:31:47编辑过]