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I don't think that anything you listed after Facebook was ever that prestigious, certainly not the cryptocurrency or influencer stuff. Prestigious places are pr
by jstx1 5y ago
I don't think that anything you listed after Facebook was ever that prestigious, certainly not the cryptocurrency or influencer stuff. Prestigious places are prestigious mostly because they are selective in addition to the type of opportunities they offer. There's nothing selective about lucking out on crypto in a bull market or about having many followers on social media.
- drstewart 5y agoI'd say SpaceX or maybe Tesla are probably the current "prestige" companies.
- dyingkneepad 5y agoOr perhaps it's just that you got older and is not in tune with the hip 20's people anymore :) Sorry for the silly joke, I'll get off your lawn.
- nostrademons 5y agoI think another phenomena is that after (and perhaps because of) Facebook, the definition of "prestigious" fragmented. People today don't agree on what's prestigious, because they have different values and different subcultures. In some circles Google is still prestigious; in others, they are literally the devil. So you might be looking at a job for prestige, but for many younger people, the roles they hold prestigious are various forms of entrepreneurship or public service. Also, lucking out on crypto or having many followers on social media are absolutely "selective" processes in that the sense that not everybody who attempts them succeeds. Typically, the people who value those activities consider it "skill" when someone's selected, while other bystanders consider it "luck". But that goes for corporate hiring as well; a lot of people consider passing the Google interviews to be just a matter of luck.