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Programmers getting their first jobs after school don't do nearly enough research about where would be best to work. Largely, I think, because they're in denial about the inconvenient truth that research is necessary.
New grads would like to believe that picking an employer is like picking a college, where all the schools at a given level of "elite" are roughly interchangeable. But employers vary a lot more than colleges. Choosing an employer is a much harder problem.
The laziness of new grads is hugely to the advantage of companies like Google, which appears to be the MIT of employers. But there's no such thing. What you want to find is the company that is now what Google was in 1999.
Figuring out which company is the next Google is a hard problem. There's a whole class of people, known as investors, whose full time job it is. But it's not an insoluble problem. And if you're young and good at programming, you have insights no investors have.
Why are they denying it you think? Fear? Laziness?
"Trust your instincts about people." applies here
Or maybe, just maybe, because getting hired is such a pita and they need money. Maybe.
They don't know what research consists of
Also I think there is this societal /peer pressure of getting a job wherever that is. Most students generally are always in some kind of student debt which adds more pressure. Literally no one even mentions this concept in school of figuring out where you want to end up.
Knowing what and how to research in this case usually first requires some experience in the workplace.
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