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Yes, more money and a big name company should mean precisely zero if you are at the beginning of your career.

You should be taking the job that allows you to best practice, learn and hone your craft, whatever that is.

Big name companies are often some of the least dynamic, most boring and slow moving places to work.

Money comes later if you work hard early in your career.

A big name company with a good reputation at the start of your career is a good social proof, since you would have beaten a lot of people to the role, and have been exposed to a successful way of doing things. Other things are important too but it means far from zero.

Agreed, not zero but company name and pay should mean relatively little at the beginning of your career. Be driven primarily by challenge, fun and learning. If you get all that then use company name and salary as the next determining factors.

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