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Go with what sounds more like the interesting work (plus, it shows you keep your word). Yes, the company name can have an effect. I worked early on for a major
by emilyfm 11y ago
Go with what sounds more like the interesting work (plus, it shows you keep your word).
Yes, the company name can have an effect. I worked early on for a major bank (global name), which made other banks more likely to look at and hire me, which made it even more likely major banks would want me, so I worked for lots of them. Got a bit typecast (but, that's where the money was ...).
So after Dell, you'd perhaps give off more of an "enterprise" vibe (and likely have very dull work!).
With the other company, it sounds like you'd be able to show more practical experience, and a less staid choice of company, which could make you more interesting to younger companies.
- partisan 11y ago> So after Dell, you'd perhaps give off more of an "enterprise" vibe (and likely have very dull work!). I agree. I am weary when I see big company names on a resume. I've had interviews where someone's whole job was creating DTOs for a service layer or writing queries in a database. That's the worst kind of pigeonhole and it happens in big companies where everyone is in their own silo. People become their inputs (specs) and their outputs (code) and people are layered in the same way code is, like an assembly line. And since the inputs and outputs are standardized, whole layers can be outsourced. As a business owner, I can appreciate the benefits of predictable results, but as a developer and a human, I can't justify hiring someone who is simply a cog in a machine and happy being that.
- paulcole 11y ago> shows you keep your word Wait, shows who? The company who pressured the OP into accepting an offer without sufficient time to think about it? Future employers aren't likely to be able to figure out that someone bailed on an internship before even starting it.