Disclaimer: We all know TC is the most important etc. but what carries the most prestige and will open the most doors by having it on your resume? Special : Palantir, OpenAI, Spacex, HFT firms(Jane Street, HRT) Prestige++: FAANG(minus Amazon), NVIDIA, Uber, Snap, Spotify, Databricks, Snowflake, Dropbox Prestige+: Crowdstrike, Salesforce, Adobe, Microsoft, AMD, Qualcomm, Amazon, Atlassian, Servicenow Prestige: Older players(Cisco, Intel, SAP, Oracle, Dell) Prestige-: top consulting companies, top banks, top auto companies Good enough: leaders in their industry but not in tech, modern tech stack Also please don’t take this seriously. Some people on here are…interesting. Feel free to change and add
Lol Dropbox
Anthropic, Anduril, DB, and maybe Google are special
Why is Anduril special?
It’s the shards of the ancient blade Narsil, used to cut the ring from the hand of Sauron, reforged in Imladris by Elrond. More than anything it represents the bloodline of the Faithful kings of Westernesse, ie Numenor, who fled the island continent to Middle Earth before Eru Illuvatar sank it beneath the waves for braking the ban of the Valar.
Spotify is barely prestige+, they pay absolute peanuts and layoff frequently
And the more revenue they make, the more their net losses.
Snowflake goes in prestige++
Palantir is not a prestigious company to work at. Their TC is 🥜 (I was offered half what I earn as an E6 at Meta in London!), their culture is weird, rubbish product, 100 hour work weeks, their stock is a joke and the company is going nowhere.
Palantir was prestigious pre IPO. Most competent engineers I knew left to start their own ventures.
Yeah, Palantir is some sort of cult and they have been coming over and really mucking up Anduril. The 'talent' I've seen from there has been really suspect too.
Snap is also weird, typically prestige++ but idk if I’d accept an offer there atm
Is this list ragebait? Genuinely the worst I've seen
No one gives a f*ck about prestige once you get out of the new grad bubble, scope and TC is all that matters. For example being Director+ at pretty much any of the low prestige companies you mentioned shits on your average mid level or senior engineer at even the most prestigious firms
How can you forget Square/Block, Inc? It's in prestige++.
Amazon pays more than other FAANGs
Pip more too
Absolutely untrue