10 Tech Companies That Are the Best Places to Work
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10 Tech Companies That Are the Best Places to Work
To be considered a great place to work, tech firms must build a corporate culture that embraces collaboration, professional growth, transparency and innovation. -
Airbnb
Company rating: 4.6 (out of 5). Employee comment: The company is "founder-led, mission-driven, creative, successful, fast-paced, community-focused and global. This is truly the most exciting and empowering place I have ever worked." -
Guidewire
Company rating: 4.5 Employee comment: "Guidewire hits the sweet spot between startup culture and big corporate culture. There is the small company vibe, wherein you can talk to everyone and get things done. And there is … the support of a larger organization." -
Hubspot
Company rating: 4.4 Employee comment: "This company is a real unicorn! It does a great job giving employees a ton of autonomy at an early point in their careers. The vision of transforming how companies attract, engage and delight customers makes it exciting to come to work every day." -
Facebook
Company rating: 4.4 Employee comment: "It might be easy to roll your eyes when people from Facebook say how open their culture is, but it's true. It's more open than any other place I've worked. … Public incidents, important non-public business metrics and the like are openly discussed. You can ask questions about them directly to [co-founder Mark] Zuckerburg at the weekly Q&A." -
LinkedIn
Company rating: 4.4 Employee comment: "LinkedIn is all about talent and growing opportunity, and they definitely walk the walk when it comes to taking care of employees. The culture and values are not just words on the wall, but are internalized and demonstrated by the leaders and management." -
Google
Company rating: 4.3 Employee comment: "If you're a software engineer, you're among the kings of the hill at Google. It's an engineer-driven company without a doubt. … It's easy to move around within the company as long as you're in good standing." (The vast majority of engineers are.) -
Zillow
Company rating: 4.3 Employee comment: "Zillow has created what most companies struggle to achieve: humanity and humility at all levels of the company. … Throughout the C-suite, VPs and directors, there is an appreciation for collaboration that goes well beyond the lip service that other companies pay." -
World Wide Technology
Company rating: 4.3 Employee comment: "Anchored by our core values and strengthened by our key concepts, WWT continues to innovate around people, process and technology." -
MINDBODY
Company rating: 4.2 Employee comment: "This is the first company I have worked for that operates as a human being would. Employees are not treated as numbers." -
Expedia
Company rating: 4.1 Employee comment: "It's like a second family and second home. Everyone is held responsible and accountable, and colleagues give each other authority, regardless of how long or short they have been in the company."
To be considered a great place to work, technology companies understand that they need to provide more than good food, happy hours, free massages and Foosball tables. They must proactively build a corporate culture that embraces collaboration, professional growth, transparency and innovation. At least that's how countless employees have described the following employers, which rank in the top 10 among IT industry companies in Glassdoor's most recent annual "Employees' Choice Awards 2016." The organizations here were selected based on their workers' ratings with respect to senior leadership and management, career opportunities, compensation and benefits, culture and values, and work-life balance. A total of 21 tech companies made the top 50 list—more than any other industry. It may come as a surprise that the top winner here isn't Google, Facebook or any of the other "usual suspects" that end up as No. 1 on these types of rankings. (Although both of these high-profile players did make the top 10.) That demonstrates that, when it comes to your employees, you don't need to be the biggest to be the best, but you do have to provide what employees need to excel at their jobs and advance in their careers. The awards "recognize employers where people love to work solely based on the authentic voice of those who really know a company best—the employees," said Robert Hohman, Glassdoor CEO and co-founder."For anyone hoping to find a job and company they love, these companies stand tallest for providing an outstanding work environment and company culture."