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This is not accurate. The engineers working at Google are talented, hard-working, and intelligent. Not everyone is interested in starting their own company; s
by karamazov 14y ago
This is not accurate. The engineers working at Google are talented, hard-working, and intelligent.
Not everyone is interested in starting their own company; some people like working in larger groups on bigger projects and not having to worry about all the non-engineering that goes into a startup.
Moreover, just because you're convinced you don't want to work at a big company doesn't mean nobody should work at one. OP is perfectly reasonable for choosing a new experience to see whether they'd like it or not, even if it's one that's unpopular among some crowds.
And having Google on your resume is a nice bonus. Even if OP decides to stick with startups after, this will help with getting hired and/or funded.
- jimboyoungblood 14y agoI am sure the engineers at Google are all very intelligent. I never meant to imply otherwise. Back in 2004 or so, Google had a virtual monopoly on all the top engineering and CS talent coming out of school. At that time, Apple wasn't as sexy as it is now, Facebook didn't exist, and everything else (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) just seemed sort of lame and corporate. Every top computer scientist wanted to work at Google. My point was that those days are long gone. Google lost a lot of good talent to Facebook and startups. It no longer has the luxury of cherry picking the best of the best. Getting a job offer from Google is no longer nearly as prestigious as it once was.
- Nate75Sanders 14y agoMicrosoft Research is something of an outlier, but I think it deserves mention here.
- Drbble 14y agoWhen the internship days are done, people learn that a good experience and good pay is more, personally rewarding than prestige. Prestige doesn't feed the chickens.