Aside from Consulting / IB / PE / VC / FAANG product management — what are the other traditional jobs people usually recruit for? These jobs seem like pure clout chasing and high pay in the short term

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I think consulting and banking are clout/pay chasing, but also give you lots of options for exits and such, so that’s not a bad thing… and PE is the opposite of short term anything. It’s all about earning carry, which is locked up and about real wealth building. I assume VC is the same. Faang I know nothing about.

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Only two you’re missing are general management/LDPs and brand managers (mostly CPGs).

General management/LDPs can be lower paying ($100-125k) but WLB is often great, usually pretty interesting work, and you can be big fish in a small pond.

However, if you’re set on non traditional routes there are a lot out there. Everything from entertainment (TV/movies) to sports teams/leagues to non-profits (Gates Foundation).

For LDP pay: it’s just lower margins. In consulting they can bill you out at $300/hr+. If you go into an HR rotation program at Cisco or credit card strategy team at Citibank they can’t do that. And yes, career earnings are lower too. 6-8 years post MBA you might be $150-175k, but in consulting you’d be a partner making 5x that. But my comment about “big fish, small pond” applies: you’ll probably have access to cool roles, might be part of an LDP, and as an MBA probably bring more IQ/EQ/polish than your colleagues, so you could advance much more quickly than traditional b-school roles.

I didn’t recruit tech so not a ton to add. But bigger companies will recruit a variety of roles, like AAPL does technical PM, operations roles, retail roles, etc. similar to Amazon, which does PM and technical PM, but also marketing, HR, and finance rotational programs. This also varies a lot by school—apple recruits for different roles at MIT than it does Kellogg.

In bigger companies getting a specific team is often by luck. However once you’re in you can always transfer.

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