Resting on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle is not only the largest city in Washington State, it is home to a significant tech industry, evergreen forests, the iconic Space Needle, and a fair amount of rain.
Millennial employees of these six Seattle–area businesses rated their companies highly on Comparably, saying these workplaces offer the things they find most important from a job: flexibility, benefits that match their values, a social impact, and to feel like a valued contributor rather than a number at work.
Smartsheet is a cloud-based work execution platform that empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 78,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 75% of the Fortune 500.
Mission: “We empower everyone to improve how they work.”
“Love the fact that everyone is trusted and open to use their cell phones, take time off, have personal time in the wellness room, and be responsible for their own professional life.”
Millennial employees at Smartsheet rated their company culture an A.
Tableau’s award-winning software delivers fast analytics, visualization and rapid-fire business intelligence on data of any size, format, or subject. The result? Anyone can get answers from data quickly, with no programming required.
Mission: “We believe helping people to see and understand data is one of the most important missions of the 21st century. We proudly wear the mantle of ‘data geek.’”
“The people are wonderful. Tableau’s hiring standards for ‘soft-skills’ continue to be top-notch. There are very few mean or rude people. Most people are genuine and friendly.”
Millennial employees at Tableau Software rated their company culture an A-.
Zillow is reimagining how people buy, rent and sell homes, empowering them with the data and services they need to get into a place they love. Zillow’s living database is comprised of more than 110 million U.S. homes – including homes for sale, homes for rent and homes not currently on the market.
Mission: “Build the world’s largest, most trusted and vibrant home-related marketplace.”
“We hire good people and motivate each other to try new things.”
Millennial employees at Zillow rated their company culture an A.
Costco originated the warehouse club concept more than three decades ago, and continues to be a leader in the industry in terms of quality, value and convenience.
Mission: “To continually provide our members with quality goods and services at the lowest possible prices.”
“Company match for 401K, and an outstanding network for outside resources such as counseling, finding daycare, legal, and in-home care, to name just a few.”
Millennial employees at Costco rated their company culture an A+.
Milliman’s primary business includes consulting practices in employee benefits, healthcare, investment, life insurance and financial services, and property and casualty insurance. Clients include a spectrum of business, financial, government, union, education, and nonprofit organizations. The firm also provides data analysis, predictive analytics, and big data services.
Mission: “Our mission is to help our clients protect the health and financial well-being of people everywhere.”
“The overall experience working with Milliman is simply awesome.”
100% of employees at Milliman say they are satisfied with their work/life balance.
Redfin is a real estate company with makes use of a combination of online listings and experienced real estate agents for its “online-offline” business model.
Mission: “Our mission is to redefine real estate in the customer’s favor.”
“We’re paid competitively, which is awesome. But most people here work for the mission. Which is also awesome.”
Redfin employees rated their company among the top 5% of similar sized companies in the U.S.