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For general management, MBA is not even a necessity. There r certain roles that NEED an MBA. Business strategy, corporate/strategic investments, strategy consulting etc. For these, a tier-1 US MBA is a globally recognized brand name. So, IIM is not even in the same league as a top 10 US MBA. Now, if ...

[quote=HAKUNAMATATA;68492]Thank you all for those informative posts, but one major dilemma with the US is theres so such thing as a retirement visa, with UK, or several countries, like NZ OR AUSTRALIA, have this scheme where one can retire as an entrepenuer etc etc. I think comparatively the living ...

Hi folks, Need inputs on buying a condo in the Bay Area. Is it a good time to buy ? Most condos are 430-480K range these days. not sure if it's going to drop more. I'm looking at a 5 year window to sell if I buy now (before R2I). I need to make 100K to break even. (6% selling costs + 2% buying costs ...

#12, #13, Thanks for your inputs. I accepted the product mgmt offer and just started my new job. I figured I would never know if I like it or not until I take the plunge and try it. In my case, I was getting tired of programming/debugging the same stuff over and over again. That plus the fact that ...

#11, insightful post. Thanks. BTW, there seems to be a fair amount of travel in this role. How do you handle the travel with the work ? I also found out the job has a lot of pressure. Customer pressure, internal pressure etc. Not that, I have not handled pressure in engineering. But, its a different ...

Did any of you get jitters thinking about leaving behind a strong engineering background (10yrs+) and making a move to a product marketing role ? Right now, I'm very jittery about this. THings are going fine at my current company. But I dont know if I want to keep doing programming/debugging/testing ...

desi,

do u have any standard template with AAP ideas ?

Excellent inputs, #4 and #5. I need to make this decision in 2 weeks. What are the long term growth oppurtunities in product mgmt/mktg ? Could the skill sets and experience transferred over to a BD(business dev) role ? Also, I suppose if I get an MBA (top tier) while I'm in this role, I could also ...

Can someone with experience in technology product management/marketing
please comment ?

Thanks

Hello friends, I'm thinking of making a lateral shift from engg. lead role to product manager role. I have a few offers. (Its in the wireless space). My question is, from a R2I to bangalore perspective, how are product management roles there ? Both in terms of oppurtunities, growth salary etc. This ...