Best Leadership 2018

The lists below represent the Best Leadership teams from Small/Medium and Large Companies who anonymously received the highest ratings from their employees on Comparably.com from May 23, 2017 to May 23, 2018. See below for employee comments and methodology.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of our 2018 Leadership Awards, including Best CEOs for Women, Best CEOs for Diversity, Best Professional Development and Best Managers.

Best Leadership (Large Companies, Ranked)

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1. HubSpot (Cambridge, MA)

2. Google (Mountain View, CA)

3. Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)

4. Costco (Issaquah, WA)

5. Insight Global (Atlanta, GA)

6. Intuit (Mountain View, CA)

7. T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA)

8. Salesforce (San Francisco, CA)

9. Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, GA)

10. Starbucks (Seattle, WA)

11. LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)

12. Apple (Cupertino, CA)

13. Microsoft (Redmond, WA)

14. LogMeIn (Boston, MA)

15. Nevro (Redwood City, CA)

16. HCA Holdings (Nashville, TN)

17. Cornerstone OnDemand (Santa Monica, CA)

18. International Flavors & Fragrances (New York, NY)

19. Dynatrace (Waltham, MA)

20. Netflix (Los Gatos, CA)

21. Pegasystems (Cambridge, MA)

22. Zillow (Seattle, WA)

23. U.S. Bank (Minneapolis, MN)

24. The Home Depot (Atlanta, GA)

25. Trimble (Sunnyvale, CA)

26. SAP (Newtown Square, PA)

27. Aflac (Columbus, GA)

28. Indeed.com (Austin, TX)

29. Fanatics (Jacksonville, FL)

30. Workfront (Lehi, UT)

31. Adobe (San Jose, CA)

32. Bloomberg (New York, NY)

33. Vertafore (Denver, CO)

34. Chevron Corporation (San Ramon, CA)

35. Prudential (Newark, NJ)

36. VMware (Palo Alto, CA)

37. Deloitte (New York, NY)

38. Liberty Mutual Insurance (Boston, MA)

39. Gartner (Stamford, CT)

40. Accenture (New York, NY)

41. Amazon (Seattle, WA)

42. Hyatt (Chicago, IL)

43. eBay (San Jose, CA)

44. Quicken Loans (Detroit, MI)

45. CBRE Group (Los Angeles, CA)

46. Sport Clips (Georgetown, TX)

47. Red Hat (Raleigh, NC)

48. Workday (Pleasanton, CA)

49. Zynga (San Francisco, CA)

50. Best Buy (Richfield, MN)

What employees anonymously said:

HubSpot: “Love the transparency, love the dedication to culture, love their encouragement to experiment and take risks (while still staying smart). They are accessible and work alongside us all…no offices.”

Insight Global: “Our leadership team has a servant management mentality. They are hands on without micro-managing and they will work right alongside you in order to make you successful. As long as you are willing to put in the work, they are willing to help you reach your goals.”

T-Mobile: “The executive team ‘gets it.’ They understand that the happier the employee is, the happier the frontline can make customers.”

LinkedIn: “Compassionate leadership style and transparency.”

Intuit: “The leadership team is approachable, clear about what their expectations are and they make sure everyone’s work is aligned to company goals.”

Aflac: “The leadership team is “very communicative and willing to adapt.”

 

Best Leadership (Small/Mid-Size Companies)

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—TOP 10 RANKED, REMAINING IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER—

1. Drift (Boston, MA)

2. RingDNA (Sherman Oaks, CA)

3. Phenom People (Ambler, PA)

4. Acorns (Irvine, CA)

5. SendGrid (Denver, CO)

6. Peerfit (Tampa, FL)

7. AristaMD (La Jolla, CA)

8. Boostability (Lehi, UT)

9. PeerStreet (El Segundo, CA)

10. SnackNation (Culver City, CA)

—ALPHABETICAL ORDER—

What employees anonymously said:

Drift: “CEO & other top leadership are extremely active within the company. Truly dedicated to open communication and engagement with things like lunch and learns, and an internal podcast.”

SendGrid: “SendGrid’s emphasis on servant leadership is felt on a daily basis. They put employees first, and this creates just an amazing place to work. They are transparent about their actions and decision making process, and it removes the fear, uncertainty and doubt around how it affects your work.”

Pipedrive: “They set ambitious but realistic goals, are very transparent with reasoning for big decisions and progress towards goals and work side-by-side with everyone else, making them really easily approachable.”

Boostability: “Leadership at Boostability is approachable and open to feedback. They’re very transparent and make it easy to collaborate on changes being made on the team.”

Periscope Data: “The leadership team is constantly and consistently kind. No matter the title, everyone is willing to drop what they’re doing and help. They also go above and beyond in keeping the company in the loop on metrics and initiatives.”

Methodology
Comparably’s Leadership Awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com between May 23, 2017 and May 23, 2018. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. Large companies are considered organizations with more than 500 employees and small/mid-size are businesses with less than 500 employees. Small/mid-size companies had to have a minimum of 15 employees participating. Large companies had to have a minimum of 50 employees participating.

About Comparably

Comparably is one of the fastest growing compensation, culture, and career monitoring sites in the U.S. With the most comprehensive and uniquely structured data — segmented by gender, ethnicity, age, location, tenure, company size, equity, title/department, and education — the platform gives employees a more accurate picture of their worth and allows them to anonymously rate their workplace experiences and match with their dream jobs. Since its launch in 2016, Comparably has accumulated more than 3 million ratings from employees across 45,000 U.S. businesses and over 8,000 companies who use its employer branding and jobs tools. For more information on Comparably, go to www.comparably.com. For highly-cited workplace culture and compensation studies, including Comparably’s annual Best Places to Work and Best CEOs lists, log onto www.comparably.com/blog.

 

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