Twitter Dethrones Facebook As The Best Tech Company To Work For In 2014
Debuting on Glassdoor's 50 best places to work list for the first time, Twitter reigns over Facebook, Google, and Apple based on work satisfaction, salary, CEO leadership, and more.
By Sadho Ram — 11 Dec 2013, 04:27 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Twitter trampled all other tech companies and took the top spot in Glassdoor's 50 best places to work list for a tech business
Glassdoor released the findings of its “50 best places to work in 2014″ survey, and 22 of them are tech companies. Twitter ranks as the number one tech company to work for, and this is the first time Twitter made the list.
LinkedIn followed Twitter on both lists, coming in second in tech and third overall.
geekwire.comInterestingly, Facebook fell in the rankings. The social network was voted the #1 tech company to work for over the past three years, but fell to third place in tech and fifth overall. This is the first time Facebook is out of the top three overall in four years.
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Google came in sixth amongst the tech companies and eighth overall. Google has consistently been on the list for the past six years, along with Apple and Qualcomm.
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Glassdoor provides an inside look into jobs and companies
Employees provide anonymous data and reviews about salaries, company culture, interview questions, leadership, and more.
cnet.comGlassdoor turns this data into useful reports, and helps job seekers determine if a company is a good fit for them.
Glassdoor now has more than 22 million members and custom data on more than 300,000 companies.
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More than half a million company reviews were submitted anonymously to Glassdoor by employees over the past 12 months.
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The Glassdoor team on Halloween. Costumes are definitely an important part of company culture.
Image via wordpress.comThe surveys ask employees to provide input on how satisfied they are with their company; workplace attributes such as career opportunities, compensation, benefits, culture and values; work-life balance; how they feel senior management is doing; whether they would recommend their employer to a friend; what their opinion is of the company’s outlook, and more.
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Glassdoor then analyzed all this data to create a ranking of which companies fared the best. This is of particular concern to the tech industry where hiring competition is fierce, and companies consistently try to out-do each other with benefits and perks.
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Companies with at least 1,000 employees had to have at least 50 approved company reviews shared by employees in past year to be considered. Here are all 22 of them:
In case you’re curious about the 50 best places to work in 2014, here’s the full list of 50 companies:
