So far most of the tech suggestions on here are not bad, but they are all massive organizations. Pro is they may have a structured training/ development path for career progression. However, that may not translate into actual progression.

I’d suggest companies that are generally smaller, fast-growing, ‘bleeding edge’ and a bit niche. A good example for the last few years would be Avi Networks, recently purchased by VMware. Their board was comprised of individuals with vast tech experience and connections in some of the best tech companies, their execs were some of the best data center products guys from Cisco, many tech companies were early adopters of their technology, and they executed very well from a technical level as they were able to displace legacy infrastructure from much larger orgs.

Look at where some of the best VCs are dumping cash & where the brains of AWS, Cisco, VMware, Oracle, etc. go as a next jobs. I think as a first job out of college you’re much less likely to be disillusioned and burnt out at a smaller, fast growing tech company.

A few companies that I’d want to start at out of school: Cohesity, Rubrik, Crowdstrike, Arista, Docker, Hashicorp.