Dive Brief:
- Glassdoor released its list of the 50 Best Places to Work in 2016 yesterday.
- Some established tech companies like Google and Cisco dropped down or off the list, while smaller, newer tech companies like Hubspot, Facebook, LinkedIn and Zillow made the list.
- Attributes of some of the top-rated companies included employees feeling valued, unique cultures aligned with mission and perks/benefits.
Dive Insight:
Google fell from No. 1 last year to No. 8 this year, and several enterprise IT companies didn’t show up in the Top 50 this year at all.
Rankings are based on a proprietary algorithm that crunched information from 1.6 million anonymous reviews.
Some of the enterprise IT companies that did make the list include Akamai (#31), Salesforce (#32), F5 Networks (#33), Workday (#35) and Red Hat (#37).
Microsoft did not make the list this year.
“What seems to make the difference based on the data we're seeing is Microsoft's reviews are more subdued, and use the word ‘good’ a lot,” said a Glassdoor spokeswoman. “For example: ‘Good salary and benefits’ and ‘Good work/life balance’ and ‘Good environment if you are in a good team with good management’.”
