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Originally Posted by digables
That sucks and seems very common from what I hear from MBAs. Would it bother you if someone was given your same salary and position without education? What would you think about that person and the company that hired him/her?
nah, but I got a 1 year Masters not an MBA and ended up taking a job that only required an undergrad degree. My bosses said that my Masters had 0 impact on my salary and the only impact it had on my hiring was that it confirmed my GPA trend (which was bad for 2 years and then got better when I had more flexibility to class select to my interests and strengths) as my grad school GPA was markedly higher than my undergrad GPA. Thus, I kinda did the exact reverse of this.
If you can do the job you can do the job. When I hire people, I only care about their background so far as it allows me to project ability, reliability, and desire to do the job and remain in the position for several years. I've passed on hiring people who I have thought were too qualified, too aspirational, too uninterested, or too hard to work alongside even if they could do the job from a technical perspective since the job is so much more than just the technical ability to understand and perform the tasks.
Doesn't really matter to me if someone has an education or not, but having one is a good entry point for people who aren't highly skilled self-taught individuals.