All thing being equal, yes, the company name does matter (at least as much as what you do there), to most people spending the requisite 200 milliseconds scannin

All thing being equal, yes, the company name does matter (at least as much as what you do there), to most people spending the requisite 200 milliseconds scanning your resume and/or profile 5 years from now. That is, again, assuming all other things about the role description being roughly equal. But in a grossly imbalanced situation such as yours: With Dell I'd be a "software intern" and they can't tell me anything more about it. With the second company I would be working on doing Full-Stack development to build (another) IoT product, which seems very interesting to me. Where company A seems eager to heap responsibility and challenge after challenge on you, while company B refuses to even tell you anything about the role other than that you'll be an "intern"... and given that company B, while you could say they're a household name, isn't exactly a Google, Facebook or Tesla... or anything close to it, really... ... then I hope you won't have any hesitancy in choosing the role offered by company A.