"I'm curious: how would people compare the prestige of working at Fog Creek vs. the prestige of working at Google?" Improving PageRank (Google) > gluing APIs (

"I'm curious: how would people compare the prestige of working at Fog Creek vs. the prestige of working at Google?" Improving PageRank (Google) > gluing APIs (anywhere) > editing project docs (anywhere) It depends on what you do. Google definitely has more high profile jobs than Fog Creek, but also probably more grunt jobs than a typical small company.