Anonymous employee review site Glassdoor research: Tech companies dominate the best places to work
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Research from anonymous employee review site Glassdoor shows that dominant software giants Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and SAP are the only companies — from any sector — to appear in all the top 50 best places to works lists in the UK, France, Germany, the US, and Canada.
The amalgamation of employee reviews shows tech companies dominate in terms of employers offering the feel-good factors.
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In the UK, workflow specialists ServiceNow tops the list with IT consultancy AND Digital coming in second. Cloudy CRM company Salesforce is third. Tech companies occupy seven of the top 10 places to work in the UK. Nineteen of the top 50 places to work in the UK are tech companies, according to the research.
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The story is similar — if not quite so marked — in the US. There, chipmaker Nvidia holds the top spot while sales platform Hubspot is number two. Cloud content management firm Box, Salesforce and Google all make the top 10.
Glassdoor Employees' Choice Awards for the Best Places to Work in 2022 is based on feedback from employees who elected to anonymously submit a company review on Glassdoor, including a numerical company rating. We've no way of seeing the rating break down by role, for example, between tech jobs and, say, sales roles.
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No analysis is offered to suggest why tech companies feature so highly, other than a few buzzy choice quotes from anonymous participants extolling the virtues of their employers. But earlier research from Glassdoor may offer a clue.
Last year, [5]Salesforce topped the list of executive pay , with median earnings of around £100,000 per annum, beating investment bank Man Group and consultancy Kearney to the top spot. Facebook, VMware, data analytics and ML company G-Research, Spotify, ServiceNow, and SAP were all in the top 25.
Meanwhile, software and IT services enjoy spectacularly high margins and revenue while a scarcity of skilled and experienced candidates may also contribute to the over representations of the tech sector in the best places to work around the world.
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It's also just possible that the kind of people who work for tech companies are also likely to be the kind of people who bother to rate employers on a platform like Glassdoor.
[7]£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit
[8]Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say
[9]Tech Bro CEO lays off 900 people in Zoom call and makes himself the victim
[10]You're not imagining it. Amazon and AWS want to hire all your friends, enemies, and everyone in between
According to the rating site, the highest rated places to work all have a few things in common. They include work-life balance, great culture, benefits and perks, transparent and accessible leadership, and senior management, learning and development and the quality of roles.
For those wanting to figure out employers to avoid, there is no commensurate Worst Places To Work ranking. According to Glassdoor, this is because it wants to focus on positive employee experience rather than negative, although The Register might suggest the prospect of legal wranglings over the methodology may also play a role.
Anyone interested, though, can always look at how an individual company scores on the website. By way of a benchmark, ServiceNow got an average rating of 4.6 out of five while the average rating is 3.7. ®
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"Research from anonymous employee review site Glassdoor shows that dominant software giants Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and SAP are the only companies — from any sector — to appear in all the top 50 best places to works lists in the UK, France, Germany, the US, and Canada."
But a company that operates in only four of those countries wouldn't even be able to appear on all the lists. That means the only candidates that could appear there need to employ a lot of people and have operations in several countries. Given the number of largish employers that don't operate everywhere, it's possible the sample size was smaller than it sounds.
That tech rates highly doesn't surprise me much. It's a field with a distinctive culture because it's relatively new and because individual employees usually have more ability to change things. That certainly doesn't mean it's the best way to operate, but there are many things about the tech culture that don't seem common in other types of company.
the highest rated places to work all have a few things in common
Like maybe a "post a good review whilst I watch or you're fired" policy?
The only good use for this site I've ever found is to just read the negative reviews by ex-employees. If there's lots of them and they're especially scathing it's a good indicator to avoid having anything to do with that company.
How do we know for sure?
It wouldn't be the first time companies, especially those with deep pockets have paid a review site to proactively remove bad reviews even if they have to violate them for petty rule infractions. On top of that I bet there are a lot of shill reviews since there is an incentive to do it and minimal verification somebody actually works for the company they purport to.
I know my last company...
....passively monitored people logging onto the site and cross referenced negative posts with time stamps. Posting bad comments is part of a disciplinary action (check your contract, chances are you have the same clause), so be prepared to get roasted.
I Know this happens in other companies as well.
Of course, the flip side, you can let it slip that you know fake reviews from HR / Marketing have been posted to GD and watch them get annoyed at them being flagged.
and how many of these "best places to work" 5-star reviews ...
... come directly from the company's HR drones?