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It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
Interesting that it seems to be all on the stats side and less on engineering. For anyone that wants to get the background for any of this I highly recommend ISLR (and ESL as a reference). http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
I respectfully disagree. Recruiters and hiring managers, and even individual interviewers take me far more seriously after having "Google" on my resume than they did before. It's not enough to land a good job automatically, but most interactions now at least start from the presumption that I'm competent, which makes a job search less frustrating.
Can't say I could answer all these questions, but I think they're really great and motivate me to spend more time studying statistics. With the rise in data science and machine learning I've noticed a lot of resources devoted to teaching people how to create and train models for a given problem, but less resources on how to interpret those models and on statistical inference in general.
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
Can you elaborate on the whole "day one" thing? Sounds interesting.
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
As for name recognition, it always helps. No employer is going to hire someone solely based on where they went to school or where they worked previously. However a well-known school or company can be the deciding factor between two candidates who are otherwise equal. My wife went to Purdue and did her pharmacy residency in Colorado. She later found out that she was competing with three other candidates for one position who were equally as good in the eyes of the residency program, and she won because she graduated from a well-known, top 10 pharmacy school.
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
> - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. I respectfully disagree. Recruiters and hiring managers, and even individual interviewers take me far more seriously after having "Google" on my resume than they did before. It's not enough to land a good job automatically, but most interactions now at least start from the presumption that I'm competent, which makes a job search less frustrating…
I know some well-known niche companies with highly-coveted positions that appear to make new hires almost exclusively from AppAmaGooBookSoft alumni (last time I mentioned this, a user correctly guessed one of the companies I was referring to from just such a vague description).
The reality is that most people hate hiring and have no idea whatsoever how to do it well (in the sense of bringing on competent people, not from the HR perspective of minimizing legal liability). Big names, in either education or employment history, help a lot. It's probably easy to underestimate how much they help if you haven't gone without them.
I would also venture that ex-BigNameCo is a lot less of a big deal if you work somewhere that's a hotspot for that type of company (Silicon Valley, Seattle). There it may be seen more as a sign of rejection than success, like "Why don't you still work at Google if you were Google material?". But even still, most companies are going to be swayed significantly by a big name on the resume.
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…
First, because I think you're factually mistaken - for a lot of people, a big name on your resume is a huge, positive flag.
Second, because there are other effects of working at a large company which you're not considering. Most importantly - they're large! That means you're going to interact with a huge amount of people. In 3 years at a BigCo, you'll likely have contacts not only in various departments, but probably in several other companies as well, both because of work with outside companies, and because of interacting with employees who left.
Not to mention, you can learn a lot about the industry that you might not necessarily be exposed to while at a small startup - via interactions with those outside companies (customers, partners, etc). You can also work on seriously big things, which you won't be working on at a startup, for example.
None of this is to say that working at a BigCo is the right move. I actually tend to think the opposite, depending on various factors. But it's definitely not an all-downsides proposition.
It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…