from Mark Cuban and I quote: "I would rather work 80 hrs a week to make 50k and work for myself than have a 750k job working for somebody else." To all the NW braggarts and to all the others asking what to do with their excess cash
Why is Stripe so highly ranked in prestige tiers? New offers are relatively low compared to companies like Affirm and Stripe stock is still private.
using a combination of factual data, reviews, Blind prestige posts I present you the most accurate prestige list of all Tier 0: Radix, TGS, Five Rings, HRT, Citadel Securities, Jane Street, Jump Trading Tier 1: OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Citadel, Netflix, Roblox, Snowflake, Two Sigma Tier 2: ...Read more
Now that Apple is doing layoffs, it's time to reevaluate the ranking. What's the most prestigious company? I've included the OG 5 for legacy reasons, microsoft for being in the trillion club, nvidia and openai because they're hot right now. #tech #meta #apple #amazon #netflix #google #microsoft #...Read more
This is your source of truth for prestige in 2024. Feel free to add suggestions below and I will update accordingly. COMPANY PRESTIGE Tier 1: Jane Street, HRT, Renaissance, Radix, DE Shaw, OpenAI, Perplexity Tier 2: Citadel, Five Rings, Optiver, Anthropic, Deepmind Tier 3: Google, Meta, Stripe, Fig...Read more
My mom bragged to her friends how I'm a successful engineer in America earning beautiful TC. She said her friends were so impressed. "Wow, Amazon! Wow, such high pay! He must be so smart! What an amazing man!" Never been more proud to be Amazonian TC 360k 😘
What are the absolute highest prestige places to work for as a specialist SWE (let’s say any speciality is in play, I mean “not just a mover of protos”)? Obviously Google and Facebook by themselves ain’t it. Google X? Google Brain? Deepmind? Facebook AI Research? Facebook Reality Labs Research? Op...Read more
What will happen to the prestige now amidst layoffs? Is google still most prestigious?
I graduated with my CS degree in 2022. I had internship offers at Google, Amazon and Indeed. My thoughts on each option at the time: Google: Developer Relations Engineer role. Mostly writing boilerplate code for Google cloud. Team seemed nice, work seemed boring. Amazon: AWS role on new robotics...Read more
If you see a Coinbase engineer, what tier do you think he is OpenAI Google Microsoft Docusign Yahoo Twitter
Agree or Disagree? Note: The companies were pre-determined. AKA I did not pick which companies to include. 230
For Machine Learning, what higher prestige places are there to work besides FAANG? You can include TC as a factor in “prestige” if you want. TC: 235k YOE: 5
💩 tier - AWS 😢 tier - payments 😱 tier - Alexa 🤡 tier - game dev 💀 tier - devices 😬 tier - retail 🤬 tier - Amazon ads 🤪 tier - internal tooling
How are the following organizations wrt to employer prestige wrt to Machine Learning. Please rank. Microsoft, Target, cruise, yahoo, qualcomm, cisco, splunk, google, Bloomberg, 3M, jp morgan, walmart, ebay #tech #microsoft #google #target #cruise # ebay #cisco
Casually browsed the prestige rankings after almost a year, surprised to see Uber so high still. #8? They’ve barely changed at all for several years now, stock is basically a nonstarter (even in 2020-21) and it seems like they’re actually closing in various global markets. What’s the reason for thi...Read more
Inb4 "omg another google circlejerk" I want to compile a list from a purely >>>recruiter and brand recognition standpoint<<< on the most prestigious companies as a SWE. The purpose is for us to be able to better compare having which company on our resume will give our careers an advant
Company prestige is extremely volatile. Look at Google for example. Only top coder reds used to be employed there once upon a time. Now it's a failed tech company with a low bar, low pay and the most pathetic CEO in history. It's not even stable with layoffs every now and then. Meanwhile IITB CS is...Read more
Which company is the most prestigious to work for? Which company will you be proudest to call your family and friends and tell them you start working for? I am not talking about WLB, or TC. This is pure prestige. Blind Tax: 350k
I’m seeing a lot of posts and comments lately mentioning “prestige”. Is that a new term that people have just learned in the past few months or was it always like this? Which company has more prestige? Which role? Which restaurant. Also feels like this is coming from some other - non western - cul...Read more