Companies across the U.S. are raising the bar for company culture, particularly in key cities such as New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. The companies below were ranked the best places to work in their respective regions, according to employee ratings on Comparably.com as of Nov. 17, 2017. Congratulations to all the winners!
This list is part of Comparably’s Best Places to Work 2017 series.
Results and methodology below.
Best Companies in Los Angeles
(listed alphabetically)
- Alorica, Irvine, CA
- BlackLine, Woodland Hills, CA
- Chrome River Technologies, Los Angeles, CA
- Cornerstone OnDemand, Santa Monica, CA
- GlobeChat, San Juan Capistrano, CA
- Golden Hippo Media, Woodland Hills, CA
- GumGum, Santa Monica, CA
- Leaf Group, Santa Monica, CA
- ReachLocal, Santa Monica, CA
- RingDNA, Woodland Hills, CA
- StackCommerce, Venice, CA
- Thrive Market, Marina Del Rey, CA
- Workpop, Santa Monica, CA
- Ytel, Foothill Ranch, CA
- ZipRecruiter, Santa Monica, CA
Best Companies in New York
(listed alphabetically)
- American Prison Data Systems, New York, NY
- Billtrust, Hamilton, NJ
- Bloomberg, New York, NY
- DigitalOcean, New York, NY
- Foot Locker, New York, NY
- Fueled, New York, NY
- Gartner, Stamford, CT
- H&M, New York, NY
- MAC Cosmetics, New York, NY
- Mastercard, Purchase, NY
- McKinsey & Company, New York, NY
- PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
- Pipedrive, New York, NY
- XPO Logistics, Greenwich, CT
- Zeel, New York, NY
Best Companies in San Francisco
(listed alphabetically)
- Adobe, San Jose, CA
- Apple, Cupertino, CA
- Branch Metrics, San Francisco, CA
- Envoy, San Francisco, CA
- Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
- Google, Mountain View, CA
- Intuit, Mountain View, CA
- LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, CA
- Netflix, Los Gatos, CA
- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA
- Periscope Data, SanFrancisco, CA
- Salesforce, SanFrancisco, CA
- Sitetracker, Palo Alto, CA
- Slack, San Francisco, CA
- VMware, Palo Alto, CA
Best Companies in Boston
(listed alphabetically)
- BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, Marlborough, MA
- Cybereason, Boston, MA
- Fasten, Boston, MA
- Help Scout, Boston, MA
- HubSpot, Cambridge, MA
- Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston, MA
- LogMeIn, Boston, MA
- Lullabot, Providence, RI
- Pegasystems, Cambridge, MA
- Rapid7, Boston, MA
- Schneider Electric, Andover, MA
- TJ Maxx, Framingham, MA
- TripAdvisor, Framingham, MA
- Unitrends, Burlington, MA
- Wayfair, Boston, MA
Best Companies in Chicago
(listed alphabetically)
- 8th Light, Chicago, IL
- AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Rolling Meadows, IL
- Braintree Forte Group, Chicago, IL
- Groupon, Chicago, IL
- Harp Interactive, Lombard, IL
- Jammber, Chicago, IL
- JLL, Chicago, IL
- ParqEx, Chicago, IL
- Sprout Social, Chicago, IL
- The Walsh Group, Chicago, IL
- ThoughtWorks, Chicago, IL
- Uptake, Chicago, IL
- Zebra Technologies, Lincolnshire, IL
Best Companies in Seattle
(listed alphabetically)
- Amazon, Seattle, WA
- Code.org, Seattle, WA
- Concur, Bellevue, WA
- Costco, Issaquah, WA
- CreativeLive, Seattle, WA
- F5 Networks, Seattle, WA
- Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- RealSelf, Seattle, WA
- Redfin, Seattle, WA
- Slalom Consulting, Seattle, WA
- Starbucks, Seattle, WA
- T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA
- Tableau Software, Seattle, WA
- UnifyCloud, Redmond, WA
- Zillow, Seattle, WA
Best Companies in Salt Lake City
(listed alphabetically)
- Ancestry, Lehi, UT
- BambooHR, Lindon, UT
- Cotopaxi, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Domo, Inc., American Fork, UT
- Instructure, Salt Lake City, UT
- Jive Communications, Salt Lake City, UT
- Lingotek, Lehi, UT
- Lucid Software, South Jordan, UT
- Overstock.com, Salt Lake City, UT
- Pluralsight, Farmington, UT
- Qualtrics, Provo, UT
- Simplus, Sandy, UT
- The REDX, Orem, UT
- Verisys Corporation, South Jordan, UT
- Workfront, Lehi, UT
Best Companies in Washington D.C
(listed alphabetically)
- Amtrak, Washington, D.C
- BizMerlin, Vienna, VA
- Capital One, McLean, VA
- Geico, Chevy Chase, MD
- Marriott, Bethesda, MD
- MITRE, McLean, VA
- Mobomo, McLean, VA
- NetCentrics Corporation, Herndon, VA
- New Signature, Washington, D.C
- Rally Health, Washington, D.C
- The Advisory Board Company, Washington, D.C
- TrackMaven, Washington, D.C
- Under Armour, Baltimore, MD
- Vox Media, Inc., Washington, D.C
- XLA, Inc., Vienna, VA
Methodology
Comparably’s “Best Of” lists are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com during the 2017 eligibility period (1/1/17– 11/17/17). There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. Large companies are considered organizations with more than 500 employees whereas small/mid-size are businesses with less than 500 employees. Companies are listed in alphabetical order.
