As Gabriel said, choosing a job can be difficult for newcomers. As such, a decision to join a company based on its specific characteristics is often a luxury that only experienced employees can have. Barring any massive red flags, such as a history of fraud, an engineering student will generally not have a huge amount of options regarding choosing a company to join. Most students will engage in any job, even if they are miserable, to build a credible resume that can then be used to join a better company.

The situation, of course, is very different for an experienced employee. Employees with particularly valuable experience, such as a past FDA role, have a great degree of latitude in choosing who to work for. They can choose to join a major corporation with a well-known name (which may help them climb the corporate ladder), join a small company and obtain a stake in it, or work as an individual, self-employed contractor. While the benefits of joining a larger company are well-known, an LLC or s-corp may offer partial ownership to particularly valuable employees. These employees would then be incentivized and expected to work especially hard, as their success would be directly related to the success of the company. Which of these options would you pick, if you were in this fortunate position?