Gen Z. They have high-tech minds. They expect a healthy work-life balance. They require a lot of feedback. They want to start their own businesses. They’re excellent multitaskers. Soon, they’ll surpass Millennials as the Earth’s most populous generation. And constituting a quarter of the US population, they’re the most diverse generation in the nation’s history. The future of every industry and business in the nation depends on the Gen Z workforce. With that in mind, here are 21 New York companies that are ahead of the curve: they are graded highly by Gen Z employees on Comparably.com. In fact, these companies all received A-level overall culture grades from workers 24 years old and younger.
Entertainment
ViacomCBS creates entertainment experiences that drive conversation and culture around the world. Through television, film, digital media, live events, merchandise and solutions, its brands connect with diverse, young and young at heart audiences in more than 180 countries.
“Being optimistic in the face of great uncertainty and change, commitment to improving diversity, inclusion and belonging and increasing transparency”
Viacom is hiring! Find your next role here.
Insurance
With roots that trace back to 1919, AIG is a global insurance company with operations in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. It provides a range of insurance products to support clients in business and in life, including: general property/casualty, life insurance, and retirement and financial services through the company’s general insurance, life and retirement and investments business units.
“My particular team tends to be the crux of our business, so our camaraderie and applications of our various skills help to effectively and successfully complete our tasks.”
AIG is hiring! Find your next role here.
Entertainment
The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets. It offers LCD televisions, audio systems, Blu-ray disc players, memory-based audio devices, personal computers, interchangeable single-lens cameras, PlayStations, batteries, audio/video/data recording media, storage media, optical pickups, chemical products, optical disk drives, and more.
“It is a inclusive work environment and it embraces diverse backgrounds.”
Sony is hiring! Find your next role here.
Cosmetics
For more than 130 years Avon has championed women and helped them succeed, in their own way and on their own terms. The company was founded in 1886, long before women’s rights were widely recognized. Its founders were pioneers of women’s empowerment, and we continue to drive this powerful mission for the women of today, selling products through millions of beauty entrepreneurs worldwide.
“I get to stay home and work. I get to meet new people.”
Avon is hiring! Find your next role here.
Financial Services
Bloomberg is the world’s primary distributor of financial data and a top news provider of the 21st century. A global information and technology company, the company uses its dynamic network of data, ideas and analysis to solve difficult problems every day. Its customers around the world rely on Bloomberg to deliver accurate, real-time business and market information that helps them make important financial decisions.
“They’re modern and keep things moving.”
Bloomberg is hiring! Find your next role here.
Retail
Location: New York City, NY
Through its Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, Runners Point, and Sidestep retail stores, as well as its direct-to-customer channels, including Eastbay.com, Foot Locker has become a leading provider of athletic footwear and apparel.
“I get to interact with great coworkers. I’m very passionate about our product as well.”
Foot Locker is hiring! Find your next role here.
Architecture & Planning
Hariri & Hariri Architecture is an architectural firm established in 1986 by Iranian-born Cornell-educated sisters Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri. Critics have stated that this New York-based firm is one of the most progressive American firms of their generation. For nearly 3 decades, they have imbued conceptual, residential, commercial and institutional projects with their own unique brand of sensual modernism.
“It makes me feel good to get to be part of this job. They give me great feedback.”
Hariri and Hariri is hiring! Find your next role here.
Internet
BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment company that is redefining online advertising with its social, content-driven publishing technology. BuzzFeed provides the most shareable breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video across the social web to its global audience of more than 200M.
“Always transparent! They have an open forum for feedback and answer every employee question posted.”
Buzzfeed is hiring! Find your next role here.
Education
Founded in 1831, NYU is one of the world’s foremost research universities and is a member of the selective Association of American Universities. The first Global Network University, NYU has degree-granting university campuses in New York and Abu Dhabi, and has announced a third in Shanghai; has a dozen other global academic sites, including London, Paris, Florence, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Accra; and sends more students to study abroad than any other U.S. college or university.
“It’s productive and energetic, you barely see anyone doing nothing and that motivates you.”
NYU is hiring! Find your next role here.
Marketing & Research
Nielsen is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services for all devices on which content—video, audio and text—is consumed.
“The culture has started to pick up and I see a lot of young bright folks joining the organization. This in my opinion is a welcome change. The newer folks are well equipped to take the organisation to a new height!”
Nielsen is hiring! Find your next role here.
Restaurants
Subway is an American fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. Its menu includes a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, breakfasts, desserts, cookies, and beverages. The company was founded in 1965 by Doctor’s Associates and is headquartered in Milford, Connecticut.
“They are all honest, hard working, reliable, and all around great people to be around.”
Subway is hiring! Find your next role here.
Accounting
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is an accounting firm that provides assurance, audit, tax, human resources, transactional, performance improvement, and crisis management services. It serves sectors such as aerospace and defense, healthcare, hospitality and leisure, industrial manufacturing, real estate, retail and consumer, technology, transportation and logistics, financial services, entertainment and media, chemicals, metals, banking and capital markets, automotive, private equity, and more.
“Diversity, equality and friendship. Equal distribution of work”
PwC is hiring! Find your next role here.
Online Media
The New York Daily News, a Tribune company (Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun), is the largest and most widely-read newspaper in the New York City metropolitan area — and the 2nd largest local media website in New York.
“They strive to make you the best you can be. We are a big family.”
New York Daily News employees rated their overall culture an A.
New York Daily News is hiring! Find your next role here.
Foo & Beverages
PepsiCo operates as a food and beverage company worldwide. Its Frito-Lay North America segment offers Lay’s and Ruffles potato chips, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, dips, Fritos corn chips, and Santitas tortilla chips. Its Quaker Foods North America segment provides Quaker oatmeal, grits, and rice cakes; and Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, Quaker Chewy granola bars, Cap’n Crunch and Life cereals, Rice-A-Roni side dishes, Quaker Oat Squares, and Quaker Natural Granola.
“We are willing to do whatever it takes to get job done.”
PepsiCo is hiring! Find your next role here.
Broadcast Media
ESPN, Inc., The Worldwide Leader in Sports, is the leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring the broadest portfolio of multimedia sports assets with over 50 business entities.
“They are a great team to be around. They always treat you and your opinions with respect and acceptance.”
PepsiCo is hiring! Find your next role here.
Marketing & Advertising
AdHawk is the easiest way to manage your digital advertising across all platforms. The company aggregates your data and puts it into one dashboard that updates in real-time. AdHawk then gives you optimization tips that you can accept or reject in one click.
“AdHawk has excellent management. The co-founders at the c-suite level and employees on each level care about all of the employees as well as the positive company culture. AdHawk aims to have its clients succeed but also its employees, which is part of what makes AdHawk such an amazing place to work.”
AdHawk employees rated their overall culture a A-.
AdHawk is hiring! Find your next role here.
Information Technology & Services
Xerox Corporation is a technology leader focused on the intersection of digital and physical. The company uses automation and next-generation personalization to redefine productivity, drive growth and make the world more secure.
“The core values of Xerox as an organization are very refreshing and I am excited for whats to come.”
Xerox is hiring! Find your next role here.
Information Technology & Services
Torry Harris Business Solutions (THBS), founded in 1998, is a trusted advisor to enterprises worldwide, helping them extend the power of digital access through integration. As a recognized leader in API Strategy and delivery, Torry Harris brings 20+ years of focused expertise in delivering business-outcome based, niche IT solutions to accelerate enterprise digital transformation initiatives, API Management, Digital Ecosystem Enablement and Digital Marketplace strategies.
“THBS has great work culture. I am learning many things like working alongside a team and sharing responsibilities, respecting deadlines and serving customers.”
Torry Harris Integration Solutions employees rated their overall culture an A+.
Torry Harris is hiring! Find your next role here.
Luxury Goods & Jewelry
Influential, innovative and progressive, Gucci is reinventing a wholly modern approach to fashion. Under the new vision of creative director Alessandro Michele, the House has redefined luxury for the 21st century, further reinforcing its position as one of the world’s most desirable fashion houses. Eclectic, contemporary, romantic—Gucci products represent the pinnacle of Italian craftsmanship and are unsurpassed for their quality and attention to detail.
“They are very helpful and understanding”
Gucci US is hiring! Find your next role here.
Information Services
Gartner, Inc. is the world’s leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. It equips business leaders with indispensable insights, advice and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities today and build the successful organizations of tomorrow.
“The management is highly supportive towards the new comers, and very patient with them. This makes the new employees feel at home in the company, and makes them realize the company’s success is their own success.”
Gartner employees rated their overall culture a A.
Gartner is hiring! Find your next role here.
Hospital & Health Care
Johnson & Johnson engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field.
“Opportunities to shape my vision into reality In a meaningful way”
Johnson & Johnson employees rated their overall culture an A-.