>people want the stamp of a top company on their resume. I hate how valuable stuff like this is to hiring managers. If you asked me to pick between the guy wh

>people want the stamp of a top company on their resume. I hate how valuable stuff like this is to hiring managers. If you asked me to pick between the guy who spent a year at Amazon or the guy who ran his own startup soup-to-nuts for a year, I'd rather go with the startup guy. Its crazy that we have this informal pseudo-classist system of "people who worked at AAA shops" vs "nobodies." Are HR departments and hiring managers really this dense?