- Blind, which offers a website where employees can rate their workplaces, just surveyed its users to find out if they'd recommend their companies as places to work.
- Almost all of the companies that made the top ranks were in the tech industry, and many of them are based in Silicon Valley.
- The bottom ranks include both tech companies and those from a wide variety of other industries.
- The top 15 companies can be found below.
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Silicon Valley may no longer be the hip place it once was, but many tech employees still think pretty highly of their workplaces.
Blind, the company that operates a website that allows workers to anonymously rate and comment on their employers, recently surveyed its US users, asking them whether they would recommend their companies to other people as a place to work. Of the 66 companies that had enough responses to include in the survey results, tech firms — most of them located in the Valley — dominated the top ranks, with San Francisco-based Square leading the chart.
To be sure, some Silicon Valley firms, — Oracle, Airbnb, and Lyft — didn't fare so well in the survey, noted Blind cofounder Kyum Kim. Employees rated companies based on their individual experiences with particular firms, he said.
How employees view their company "just depends on what kind of culture the leadership has created," Kim said.
Blind launched the survey last month and ultimately received more than 8,000 responses. In order to be included in the rankings, a company had to have at least 30 of its employees complete the survey.
Kim's site rated the companies it included using the Net Promoter Score system, taking a look at the number of employees who said they strongly agreed with the notion that they would recommend their firm to others and subtracting from that the number of employees who gave a neutral response to that statement or disagreed with it, strongly or otherwise. It then normalized all the results on a 100-point scale.
Tech companies, broadly defined, took 14 of the top 15 slots. Of course, that could be in part a function of the fact that Blind itself is based in San Francisco and is widely used by tech workers. Still, the lower ranks of the survey included companies representing a wide range of industries, among them ExxonMobil, WeWork, Boeing, and Goldman Sachs.
One interesting thing about the survey: In some cases, companies that ranked highly in this survey survey actually had lower ratings overall from Blind users, who rank their companies on an ad-hoc basis over time. The survey responses could likely have been influenced by how companies have been handling the coronavirus crisis, since that unprecedented situation has been top-of-mind for many workers, Kim said.
Workers are judging their employers based on "how empathetic they are with their employees" in this time, he said.
Here are the top 15 companies to work for, according to their own employees:
15. Dropbox
NPS in Blind survey: 5
Overall Blind Rating: 4.3
Top scores: 4.5 for work-life balance and compensation/benefits
Lowest score: 3.5 for management
CEO: Drew Houston
Headquarters: San Francisco
Industry: Tech — Cloud storage
14. Apple
NPS in Blind survey: 8
Overall Blind Rating: 4.1
Top score: 4.1 for compensation/benefits
Lowest score: 3.6 for work-life balance
CEO: Tim Cook
Headquarters: Cupertino, Calif.
Industry: Tech — Computer hardware, software, services, and accessories
13. Stripe
NPS in Blind survey: 10
Overall Blind Rating: 4.2
Top score: 4.4 for compensation/benefits
Lowest score: 3.4 for work-life balance
CEO: Patrick Collison
Headquarters: San Francisco
Industry: Financial technology — Payment processing
12. Adobe
NPS in Blind survey: 10
Overall Blind Rating: 4.0
Top score: 4.4 for work-life balance
Lowest scores: 3.4 for management and career growth
CEO: Shantanu Narayen
Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.
Industry: Tech — Software
11. Salesforce
NPS in Blind survey: 11
Overall Blind Rating: 4.3
Top score: 4.6 for work-life balance
Lowest scores: 3.9 for career growth and compensation/benefits
CEO: Marc Benioff
Headquarters: San Francisco
Industry: Tech — Software
10. Facebook
NPS in Blind survey: 12
Overall Blind Rating: 4.3
Top score: 4.6 for compensation/benefits
Lowest score: 3.5 for work-life balance
CEO: Mark Zuckerberg
Headquarters: Menlo Park, Calif.
Industry: Tech — Social media
9. Indeed
NPS in Blind survey: 14
Overall Blind Rating: 3.9
Top score: 4.8 for work-life balance
Lowest score: 3.3 for career growth
CEO: Chris Hyams
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Industry: Recruiting
8. Microsoft
NPS in Blind survey: 16
Overall Blind Rating: 4.0
Top score: 4.2 for work-life balance
Lowest score: 3.2 for compensation/benefits
CEO: Satya Nadella
Headquarters: Seattle
Industry: Tech — software
7. Google
NPS in Blind survey: 18
Overall Blind Rating: 4.4
Top score: 4.5 for work-life balance
Lowest score: 3.7 for career growth
CEO: Sundar Pichai
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif.
Industry: Tech — Internet search and advertising
6. Bloomberg
NPS in Blind survey: 27
Overall Blind Rating: 4.1
Top score: 4.5 for work-life balance
Lowest score: 3.5 for career growth
CEO: Michael Bloomberg
Headquarters: New York
Industry: Publishing — Financial news and information
5. Nvidia
NPS in Blind survey: 43
Overall Blind Rating: 4.5
Top score: 4.5 for company culture
Lowest scores: 4.1 for compensation/benefits and work-life balance
CEO: Jensen Huang
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
Industry: Tech — Semiconductors
4. Docusign
NPS in Blind survey: 50
Overall Blind Rating: 4.8
Top score: 4.9 for company culture
Lowest score: 4.5 for compensation/benefits
CEO: Dan Springer
Headquarters: Seattle
Industry: Tech — Electronic signatures
3. Netflix
NPS in Blind survey: 52
Overall Blind Rating: 4.1
Top score: 4.8 for compensation/benefits
Lowest score: 3.6 for career growth
CEOs: Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos
Headquarters: Los Gatos, Calif.
Industry: Entertainment — Streaming video
2. Atlassian
NPS in Blind survey: 61
Overall Blind Rating: 4.7
Top score: 4.8 for company culture
Lowest scores: 4.1 for career growth and compensation/benefits
CEOs: Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes
Headquarters: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Tech — Enterprise software
1. Square
NPS in Blind survey: 79
Overall Blind Rating: 4.6
Top score: 4.7 for work-life balance
Lowest scores: 3.9 for compensation/benefits
CEO: Jack Dorsey
Headquarters: San Francisco
Industry: Financial technology — Payment processing
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