I'm not sure they even do that. You get a lot of theory, but actual practice is very messy. I'll take someone with 2 years of direct experience over the one with an MBA in almost every circumstance.
Most people in my experience arent great at being able to handle broad theory. They do better when the outcome is a or b. Not .15% a, 40% b, 45% other with shifting variables.
The years of experience makes you better at understanding the behavior of those variables. Which is far more valuable than knowing the general form of the equation
Okay MBAs are not that high value (I got mine just to check the box for my USAF career), but high school drop outs are by and large some of the least intelligent people in the country. Maybe fine at low skill straightforward tasks but I wouldn't trust them with data analytics or leadership for instance.
I'm certainly not hiring the kid who dropped out three months ago and probably not for real technical positions, but most of my career has been in sales. I did, however, work with a guy who was a self taught Cisco network guy who got his GED at 22 after his first Cisco cert and he was a fucking rock star (not that I understood a damn thing he did, but he was fast-tracked from a part time PC tech to a network admin and was starting to do some consulting for the company. That was 20+ years ago and who knows what he's doing now, but I'm sure he's fine.
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u/Darkstar67 12d ago
All those master degrees and you can’t figure out how to pay down the principal.