Best Leadership Teams 2019

Comparably’s annual Best Leadership Teams 2019 represents the best management teams as rated by their employees. The award winners are segmented into two ranked lists: Top 50 management teams from large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 50  management teams from small/mid-size companies (less than 500 employees).  See below the lists for methodology. Top-Rated Leadership … Read full-story

Best CEOs for Diversity 2019

Comparably’s annual Best CEOs for Diversity 2019 represents the top-ranked CEOs, as rated on solely by diverse employees. The award winners are segmented into two ranked lists: Top 50 CEOs of large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 50 CEOs of small/mid-size companies (less than 500 employees). See below the lists for methodology.  For 2018 … Read full-story

Best CEOs for Women 2019

Comparably’s annual Best CEOs for Women 2019 represents the top-ranked CEOs as rated on by their female employees. The award winners are segmented into two ranked lists: Top 50 CEOs from Large companies (more than 500 employees) and Top 50 CEOs from Small/Mid-Size companies (less than 500 employees). See below the lists for methodology. For 2018 … Read full-story

The Nondurable Goods Industry: Comparing the cultures of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nike, Nestle, and Proctor & Gamble

Non-Durable goods, sometimes referred to as “Soft Goods,” are consumer items that are either consumes immediately (like a soda) or are expected to last three years of less (like a pair of sneakers.) This is indeed a broad category, but the benefit for a culture study is being able to compare the cultures of companies … Read full-story

The Durable Goods Industry: Comparing the cultures of General Electric, Bosch, Philips, Samsung, and Canon

Durable Goods are exactly what you would expect they are: consumer items that are meant to last a while. Big sales of durable goods are a sign of a healthy economy, which is why they’re also the subject of the Census Bureau’s monthly “Durable Goods Orders” report. For the purposes of a culture comparison, looking … Read full-story

The Defense Industry: Comparing the cultures of Aecom, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bechtel, Leidos, and BAE Systems

Today we look at five contractors involved in the U.S. Defense Industry – Aecom, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bechtel, BAE Systems, and Leidos – to see how they were rated by their employees in terms of company culture. Comparably’s user-submitted ratings and reviews can paint a virtual picture for us of the story behind-the-scenes at all five … Read full-story

The News Media Industry: Comparing the cultures of The New York Times, CNN, Fox, and The Associated Press

Industries in flux make for great culture showdowns, and today Comparably looks at four companies in the News Media Industry – The Associated Press, CNN, Fox, and The New York Times. The ungainly transition from print to digital dominance is an old story at this point, but how has the tumult affected internal culture and … Read full-story

The Logistics Industry: Comparing the cultures of FedEx, UPS, DHL, and XPO Logistics

Today we look at four top companies from the U.S. Logistics Industry – DHL, FedEx, UPS, and XPO Logistics. We’ll look behind-the-scenes at how the employees of these companies feel about working for them: how they feel about they paychecks, their benefits, and the feeling of walking into work ever day. Using Comparably’s employee-submitted reviews … Read full-story

The Real Estate Industry: Comparing the cultures of Century 21, Cushman & Wakefield, HomeLight, Redfin, and Re/Max

Some estimates put the Real Estate Industry as the #1 leading segment in the U.S. economy, responsible for as much as 13% of the country’s gross domestic product. Today, five companies from that industry – Century 21, Cushman & Wakefield, Re/Max, and relative newcomers HomeLight and Redfin. Let’s see how the five companies match up … Read full-story

The Restaurant Industry: Comparing the cultures of Cheesecake Factory, Cracker Barrel, Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Red Robin

Today, it’s five chain restaurants going head-t0-head (to-head-to-head, etc) not for their weekly specials, the quality of the food or the size of their bottomless margaritas, but rather how their own employees rate their internal culture. Restaurants like these five – Cheesecake Factory, Cracker Barrel, Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Red Robin – don’t get … Read full-story

The Beverage Industry: Comparing the cultures of Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle, Dr Pepper Snapple, and Red Bull

Three storied soda companies, a purveyor of hot cocoa and coffee, and the maker of a popular energy drink are the five companies from the Beverage Industry (Non-Alcoholic) that will face off today in Comparably’s digital arena. Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper Snapple, Nestle, PepsiCo and Red Bull all offer popular drinks, but will be judged here purely … Read full-story

8 Los Angeles Area Tech Companies that Offer Great Compensation

Here are eight Los Angeles area tech companies that are rated exceptionally well for Compensation by employees on Comparably. PeerStreet       88% of employees at PeerStreet say they are satisfied with their compensation. PeerStreet is an online marketplace that allows individual investors access to real estate loan investments. Co-Founder and CEO Brew Johnson … Read full-story

The Sporting Goods Industry: Comparing the cultures of REI, Bass Pro Shops, LL Bean, Cabela’s and Dick’s Sporting Goods

Five companies from the Sporting Goods industry: Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, LL Bean, and REI. Comparably collects anonymous self-submitted employee sentiment about the workings of the company culture and the satisfaction of said employees, and generates Overall Scores based on those sentiment reviews. So which of these five companies treats their employees the … Read full-story

The e-Commerce Industry: Comparing the Cultures of Amazon, Apple, eBay, Walmart and Home Depot

Today we look at the five biggest eCommerce companies currently shipping their wares across the U.S. Amazon, Apple, eBay, The Home Depot and Walmart all have shown mastery in courting online shoppers over the period where the nature of American shopping switched from wandering around a mall to browsing a website with your thumb. But … Read full-story

The Big Data Industry: Comparing the cultures of DellEMC, Splunk, Teradata, VMWare and SAP

We examine the company cultures of five companies involved in the Big Data industry today. How do employees at DellEMC, SAP, Splunk, Teradata and VMWare feel about the cultures of the companies they work for? We used Comparably’s employee-submitted reviews and ratings to paint a picture of how satisfied the employees of these Big Data … Read full-story

The Cloud Computing Industry: Comparing the cultures of Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, VMWare and Workday

Today it’s five companies in the Cloud Computing business facing off form our company culture showdown. We skipped some of the larger companies we’ve focused on before (like AWS) to shine a light on a handful of companies that maybe are not quite household names yet – Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, VMWare and Workday. Focused on … Read full-story

The Streaming Media Industry: Comparing the cultures of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, and Time Warner.

Today we compare the behind-the-scenes cultures of five major players in the video streaming industry – Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, TimeWarner (who own HBO, who produces “Game of Thrones,” and we have to mention “Game of Thrones”) and big daddy of them all Netflix. Streaming media hasn’t been around forever, so most of these companies shouldn’t … Read full-story

The Information Technology Industry: Comparing the cultures of Adobe, Dell, HP, IBM and Intel

Five companies heavily involved in the Information and Technology Industry will meet in our digital arena today so we can determine which of them has the most robust, satisfying company culture according its employees – who submitted their sentiments anonymously via Comparably. We stayed away from the more obvious companies that we’ve covered before elsewhere … Read full-story

Participate in Comparably’s Upcoming Q2 CEO and Leadership Awards

In late June Comparably will unveil our next set of awards, highlighting the top-rated leaders in these categories: Best CEOs for Women (highest rated by female employees), Best CEOs for Diversity (highest rated by minority employees), Best Leadership Teams (companies with the highest rated executives), and Best Professional Development (companies with the highest ratings for growth opportunties).  There is no … Read full-story

The Hospitality Industry: Comparing the cultures of Airbnb, Best Western, Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott

The Hospitality Industry covers four main segments – Food and Beverages, Travel and Tourism, Recreation, and today’s focus, Lodging. Five companies heavily involved in the Lodging segment will compete for the little gold trophies today to determine which company offers the best company culture to its employees. We’ve changed things up a little bit today, … Read full-story

Survey: 41% of Women Don’t Think #TimesUp Will Lead to Progress in the Workplace

Fifteen months after the Weinstein Effect helped kick off the #TimesUp movement, where do we stand? It’s hard to imagine too many who haven’t been affected by the movement attempting to out sexual harassment, especially in the workplace, but how have we been affected? Everyone is certainly more careful what they say and do, surely, … Read full-story

The Petroleum Industry: Comparing the cultures of BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon and Shell

Five petroleum companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Marathon, and Shell – go head-to-head today as we look at Comparably’s employee-submitted reviews and grades to determine how workers at all five companies feel about their jobs. Does Big Petroleum bother to generate much of a company culture for their employees? Does Big Oil offer big paychecks … Read full-story

The Department Store Industry: Comparing the cultures of Dillard’s, JC Penney, Kohl’s, Macy’s and Nordstrom

The internal cultures of five big brick-and-mortar department store chains – Dillard’s, JC Penney, Kohl’s, Macy’s, and Nordstrom – are the subject of today’s industry showdown. It’s no secret that for those in the retail world, the last ten-plus years have seen major upheaval from the online shopping marketplaces that have come to dominate the … Read full-story

The Hardware Industry: Comparing the company cultures of Ace, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Menards and Sears Hardware

The hardware store industry, like many other retail concerns, is facing serious winds of change. How much longer will this brick-and-mortar monoliths exist before they lose all their commercial ground to online shopping? After all, for many, a hammer is a hammer is a hammer (even if its a ball-peen hammer). Today we look behind … Read full-story

The Airline Industry: Comparing the cultures of American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United Airlines

Today, we’ll peek behind the scenes at the Airline Industry, and at five companies – American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwestern, and United Airlines – to see how healthy and modern the cultures are at each company. Using Comparably’s wealth of employee-submitted reviews and grades, we’ll paint a picture of how it is to work in an industry that … Read full-story

The Pharmaceutical Industry: Comparing the cultures of Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Roche, and Bristol-Meyers Squibb

Today, five major companies from the Pharmaceutical Industry – Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pfizer, and Roche – will be judged not on their latest market moves or drug trials, but by their employees feel about working for them. Using Comparably’s employee-submitted reviews and information, we’ve put together a virtual picture of what it’s … Read full-story

Best Product Leaders 2019

There’s a famous, unattributed quote that says, “Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.” Comparably’s Best Product Leaders 2019 prove that to be true. These are 25 of the most inspiring department leaders in the country. Each of them heads … Read full-story

Best Engineering Leaders 2019

There’s a famous, unattributed quote that says, “Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.” Comparably’s Best Engineering Leaders 2019 prove that to be true. These are 25 of the most inspiring department leaders in the country. Each of them heads … Read full-story