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Google provides immediate brand recognition that shows future employers that you've achieved a certain level success and/or are capable enough to get in. In add
by orky56 8y ago
Google provides immediate brand recognition that shows future employers that you've achieved a certain level success and/or are capable enough to get in. In addition, Google pays very well and offers equity that has a tangible value since they are already public, highly stable, and still have some growth in their future. Having Google early in your career allows you to then seek future opportunities having some money saved from salary/bonus/stock and with more ability to get into leadership in smaller but still high growth companies.
- ronilan 8y agoThis is sage advice. The opportunities of your later years are derived from how you've spent your younger ones. A brand-name employer early in life may not "be-all and end-all" but it is a very, very good idea, if you can make it happen.
- ilikehurdles 8y agoI wish I received this kind of advice when I was younger and in college.
- lsc 8y agoThe other thing I want to point out here which I wish I understood in my early 20s is that cash you invest when you are young grows. long-term long-bets of the type your mom would recommend (whole market index funds, real-estate, etc...) really require time to work, so socking money away when you are young makes a big difference. I've got friends who earn about what I do who are about my age who, many years, earn as much at this point from income on their capital as they do from their regular job. I would be in that position too, if I had spent my money working for a big company and socking cash away, rather than spending my '20s running a business. I'd make more money working for other people, too. Having a company with a good brand on your resume means a hell of a lot more than running a lifestyle company, even if that company succeeded as a lifestyle company.