> when you can instead much more easily get a position at a > lower profile company, like Amazon or Microsoft It's not quite comparable. When I was a hiring ma

> when you can instead much more easily get a position at a > lower profile company, like Amazon or Microsoft It's not quite comparable. When I was a hiring manager at Microsoft, I regularly saw candidate who already had offers from Amazon and Google that didn't even make it through a half-day of interviews. I assume the same is for candidate that we made offers to who went to Google. The companies are all both looking for slightly different things - culture fit is a HUGE part - and there's some random luck of the draw. (e.g., did your first interviewer just come to work after a fight with their husband?)