Glassdoor.com® Launches Employees’ Choice Awards Unveiling the 50
Best Places to Work
General Mills, Bain & Company and Netflix Top List, According to
Their Employees
SAUSALITO, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) December 30, 2008 --
Glassdoor.com®, a career and workplace community bringing greater
transparency to company cultures and compensation, today released its
first annual Employees’ Choice Awards¹, listing the top 50 “Best Places
to Work” based on surveys² collected from employees at more than 11,000
companies operating in the United States. General Mills had the highest
rating from its employees, followed closely by Bain & Company, Netflix,
Adobe, and Northwestern Mutual, which round out the top five companies
on Glassdoor’s inaugural list.
“The Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards are truly unique in that they
are based on the unbiased voices of the people who walk the halls every
day and know these companies best,” said Robert Hohman, CEO and
co-founder of Glassdoor.com. “Despite the inherent challenges faced by
most businesses today, reading just a handful of company reviews on
Glassdoor.com makes it easy to see the attributes that make these top
companies consistently stand out and distinguish themselves from the
pack.”
Unlike many workplace-related awards that require companies to self
nominate, Glassdoor relies solely on the input from employees. The
ranking of the top 50 list was determined by each company’s overall
rating3 on Glassdoor, which is the cumulative average rating
from employees who elected to participate in a 20-question survey that
addresses key workplace factors, including work/life balance, career
opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, employee
morale, recognition and feedback, senior leadership as well as fairness
and respect.
General Mills’ rating was 4.5 and employees gave CEO Ken Powell a 96%
approval rating. The complete list along with corresponding CEO approval
rating is below.
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Glassdoor Employees’ Choice: 50 Best Places to Work
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Rank
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Company
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Overall
Rating
(5-point scale)
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CEO
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CEO
Approval
Rating (%)
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1
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General Mills
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4.5
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Ken Powell
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96
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2
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Bain & Company
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4.5
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Orit Gadiesh
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88
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3
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Netflix
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4.4
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Reed Hastings
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100
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4
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Adobe
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4.3
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Shantanu Narayen
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82
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5
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Northwestern Mutual
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4.2
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Edward J. Zore
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98
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6
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Whole Foods
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4.2
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John P. Mackey
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85
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7
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Google
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4.1
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Eric E. Schmidt
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89
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8
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SAP
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4.1
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Henning Kagermann
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75
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9
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Continental Airlines
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4.1
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Larry Kellner
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79
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10
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NetApp
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4.0
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Dan Warmenhoven
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79
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11
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Intuit
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4.0
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Brad D. Smith
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78
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12
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McKinsey & Company
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4.0
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Ian Davis
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85
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13
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FactSet
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3.9
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Philip A. Hadley
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91
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14
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Boston Consulting
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3.9
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Hans-Paul Bürkner
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71
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15
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Procter & Gamble
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3.9
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A.G. Lafley
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86
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16
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Caterpillar
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3.9
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Jim Owens
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85
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17
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Genentech
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3.8
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Art Levinson
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94
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18
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CareerBuilder
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3.8
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Matt Ferguson
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86
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19
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Apple
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3.8
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Steve Jobs
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90
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20
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Juniper Networks
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3.8
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Kevin Johnson
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n/a
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21
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Marriott
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3.8
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Bill Marriott Jr.
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82
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22
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NIKE
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3.8
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Mark G. Parker
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100
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23
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Ernst & Young Global
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3.8
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Jim Turley
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79
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24
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MITRE
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3.8
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Alfred Grasso
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53
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25
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Chevron
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3.8
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Dave O'Reilly
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73
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26
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Goldman Sachs
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3.8
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Lloyd C. Blankfein
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86
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27
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Nordstrom
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3.8
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Blake W. Nordstrom
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75
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28
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Citrix Systems
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3.7
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Mark B. Templeton
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77
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29
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Schlumberger
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3.7
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Andrew Gould
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70
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30
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Booz Allen Hamilton
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3.7
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Ralph W. Shrader
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61
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31
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National Instruments
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3.7
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James J. Truchard
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74
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32
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Novell
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3.7
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Ron Hovsepian
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64
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33
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PricewaterhouseCoopers
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3.7
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Sam DiPiazza Jr.
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59
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34
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American Express
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3.6
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Ken Chenault
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80
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35
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Cisco Systems
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3.6
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John T. Chambers
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79
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36
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USAA
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3.6
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Joe Robles Jr.
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83
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37
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EMC
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3.6
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Joe Tucci
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60
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38
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Capital One
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3.6
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Rich Fairbank
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68
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39
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QUALCOMM
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3.6
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Paul E. Jacobs
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75
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40
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MetLife
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3.6
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Rob Henrikson
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53
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41
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Lockheed Martin
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3.6
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Robert J. Stevens
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63
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42
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Texas Instruments
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3.6
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Rich Templeton
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64
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43
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US Army
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3.6
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Pete Geren III
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50
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44
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Deloitte
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3.5
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Jim Quigley
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64
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45
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Wells Fargo
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3.5
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John G. Stumpf
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65
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46
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Best Buy
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3.5
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Brad Anderson
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64
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47
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salesforce.com
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3.5
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Marc Benioff
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69
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48
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Accenture
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3.5
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Bill Green
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67
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49
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FedEx
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3.5
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Fred Smith
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67
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50
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Paychex
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3.5
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Jon Judge
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59
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For more information about the awards and sample reviews from top
companies, visit http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm
and the Glassdoor.com blog (http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/).
A complete copy of the Glassdoor survey along with additional
information about the Best Places to Work methodology may be requested
via email: BestPlacestoWork@glassdoor.com.
For more information about Glassdoor and to read company reviews visit www.glassdoor.com.
To receive regular updates about new and interesting data and reports,
visit and/or subscribe to the Glassdoor blog.
About Glassdoor.com
Glassdoor.com is a new career and workplace community where anyone can
find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details
about specific jobs for specific employers – for free. Designed to
deliver greater transparency around our work life, Glassdoor enables
employees, job seekers, employers and recruiters to simultaneously see –
for the first time – unedited employee opinions about a company’s work
environment along with details of pay, benefits and CEO approval
ratings. Glassdoor was founded in 2007 and launched its public beta in
June 2008. Glassdoor is headquartered in Sausalito, Calif. and was
founded by Richard Barton, Robert Hohman and Tim Besse.
¹ To be eligible for the inaugural Employees’ Choice Awards for the Best
Places to Work companies must have received at least 25 reviews from
U.S.-based employees who are current employees of the company or who
were employed at some time during 2008, maintain a ‘satisfied’ or above
cumulative average overall and across eight workplace factors addressed
in the company’s voluntary 20-question survey, and the company’s CEO
must have an approval rating higher than 50%.
² Glassdoor carefully reviews each ratings survey, company review and
salary report submitted through its website and only those surveys and
reports that are approved by the Glassdoor research team are eligible
for the list.
3 The overall rating on Glassdoor.com is based on a 5-point
scale with 5 being “extremely satisfied” and 1 being “extremely
dissatisfied.”
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