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Prestige doesn't pay for food or the roof over your head.
Prestige is only helpful from an ego perspective or an exit opportunity perspective. The latter is smart to think about the former is meaningless.
Agree-I was sort of wrapping that up into exit ops / future impact (from the network, credibility, etc)
Depends on where you are in your career. If you are near the beginning you maybe able to parley 2-5 years at prestigious company into more money for the next 35 years.
If you are mid career, you get less of a boost from the prestigious job and have fewer years to recoup in higher future salary.
Depends on what degree. Prestige such as brand name and title at a big company will take you further than an immediate $20-30k increase if you know how to leverage it for your next opportunity.
For example, I would take a Senior Manager position at Google over a Director or VP position at a small company. The reason for this is because small companies can literally throw out any title to get you on board. Thus it holds no value. A “CEO” title for a start up carries significantly less weight than a Manager level position at a prestigious firm.
^Agree with C1, although the two may be connected- depends on the situation. For consulting, esp in NY, going to a boutique shop will hurt your career. There are many small pop-up bogus European and UK companies that have startups in a few cities. They entice you with higher salaries, unlimited PTO etc. Most are con-artists.