As a 1st year senior which would be best for future career opportunities?
- Staff Accountant at FAANG company
- Senior Accountant at F500 company
- Manager/ controller role at smaller company/ start up

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Go ahead and cross off staff accountant at FAANG. Those companies are only good to work for in sales or software development. I’d probably go for the startup but it just depends on your risk tolerance

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A lot of software or services sell themselves. Especially if you do enterprise sales, you can pull some serious coin

Only the first two I’d say you’re eligible for as a first year senior. I’d shoot for the second if leaving now.

If you can get a controller position with two years go for it.

Much better! And I get to feel like I'm adding actual value which I was kind of missing in audit.

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