A new report has been released on the best places to work based on employees who anonymously submitted a company review over a 12-month time frame
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Career website Glassdoor Inc. has released its annual report on the best places to work based on employees who elected to anonymously submit a company review on its website over a 12-month time frame. This year's winner, Bain & Company Inc., has been in the top five since the list's inception in 2009 and has been No. 1 three times. Employees cite a great salary, benefits, mentorship, and a culture that promotes employee engagement, according to Scott Dobroski, Glassdoor community expert.
While a company has yet to take the top spot two years in a row, past winners don't tend to fall precipitously. Airbnb Inc., however, bucked the trend this year, falling to No. 35 after taking the top spot in its Glassdoor debut in 2015.
"Airbnb has definitely dropped amongst the most ever," said Dobroski. Some of the factors that played into the fall have to do with the typical growing pains of a startup. "Airbnb continues to grow, and employees say it's now harder to find work-life balance, opportunities for advancement, and transparency from the top," Dobroski added. The company still receives high ratings from employees, so Dobroski isn't particularly worried. "These are common themes among emerging, private companies that are doing well globally."
Airbnb spokeswoman Brittany Cornejo said that the firm "strives to create a work environment where all of our employees feel welcome, appreciated, and inspired by the work they're doing every day."
The competition this year was particularly fierce: All 50 companies on the list are within a 0.5 range on a scale of 0 to 5. In order to qualify for consideration, at least 75 employees of a company must submit reviews. The average score for a company this year was 3.3.
Clorox Co., Forrester Research Inc., Keller Williams Realty Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Lululemon Athletica Inc. all made the list for the first time this year. Newcomers to the list offer unique company cultures and meaningful work that seem to align with the overall mission of the company, said Dobroski. One SpaceX employee cited a sense of fulfillment and the ability to work on "exciting, fast paced projects" at Elon Musk's aerospace manufacturing company, for an example.
Here's the full list of 50, with their rankings.
Top 50 places to work ranked on Glassdoor
1. Bain & Company
2. Facebook
3. Boston Consulting Group
4. Google
5. World Wide Technology
6. Fast Enterprise
7. In-N-Out Burger
8. LinkedIn
9. Adobe
10. Power Home Remodeling
11. McKinsey & Company
12. Clorox
13. Nestlé Purina PetCare
14. Paylocity
15. SAP
16. MathWorks
17. Salesforce
18. Forrester
19. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
20. Intuit
21. Delta Air Lines
22. Memorial Sloan Kettering
23. DocuSign
24. Concur
25. Akamai
26. Johnson & Johnson
27. H E B
28. Southwest Airlines
29. Zillow
30. NVIDIA
31. Keller Williams
32. Genentech
33. Trader Joe's
34. Costco Wholesale
35. Airbnb
36. Apple
37. Microsoft
38. lululemon
39. FedEx Freight
40. Space Exploration Technologies
41. BASF Corporation
42. Texas Instruments
43. Raising Cane's
44. Mayo Clinic
45. Ikea
46. Aegis Living
47. E. & J. Gallo Winery
48. QuikTrip
49. Gensler
50. Wegmans Food Market
