As the highest ranking officer of a company, a CEO has the distinct responsibility to steer and grow his or her company in the right direction and rise to the challenges it faces while simultaneously ensuring employees have a safe and rewarding atmosphere in which to thrive.
Not only were we curious to see how employees in the tech industry rated their CEOs, we were interested in diving one step deeper to show how positively women and employees of various ethnicities rated their CEOs.
— CEO Score: Overall employee rating of the CEO (men & women).
— Gender Score: How positively women rate their CEO.
— Diversity Score: How positively non-caucasians rate their CEO.
LARGE TECH COMPANIES WITH MORE THAN 3,500 EMPLOYEES
| RANK | COMPANY | CEO | OVERALL SCORE | GENDER
SCORE |
DIVERSITY
SCORE |
|
| 1 |  |
Intuit | Brad Smith | 90% | 91% | 88% |
| 2 |  |
Salesforce | Marc Benioff | 90% | 91% | 83% |
| 3 |  |
Jeff Weiner | 87% | 82% | 84% | |
| 4 |  |
Indeed | Hisayuki Idekoba | 85% | 83% | 87% |
| 5 |  |
Adobe | Shantanu Narayen | 85% | 81% | 90% |
| 6 |  |
Mark Zuckerberg | 82% | 80% | 78% | |
| 7 |  |
Apple | Tim Cook | 80% | 84% | 80% |
| 8 |  |
Microsoft | Satya Nadella | 80% | 82% | 78% |
| 9 |  |
Sundar Pichai | 80% | 76% | 78% |
MID-SIZE TECH COMPANIES WITH 1,500-3,500 EMPLOYEES
| RANK | COMPANY | CEO | OVERALL SCORE | GENDER
SCORE |
DIVERSITY
SCORE |
|
| 1 |  |
Zillow | Spencer Rascoff | 92% | 98% | 77% |
| 2 |  |
Netflix | Reid Hastings | 91% | 83% | 83% |
| 3 |  |
CornerStone onDemand | Adam Miller | 86% | 87% | 90% |
| 4 |  |
Square | Jack Dorsey | 83% | 84% | 88% |
| 5 |  |
Airbnb | Brian Chesky | 80% | 83% | 76% |
SMALL TECH COMPANIES WITH 100-1,500 EMPLOYEES
| RANK | COMPANY | CEO | OVERALL SCORE | GENDER
SCORE |
DIVERSITY
SCORE |
|
| 1 |  |
SendGrid | Sameer Dholakia | 94% | 93% | 85% |
| 2 |  |
Slack | Stewart Butterfield | 93% | 94% | 94% |
| 3 |  |
Kollective Technology | Daniel P. Vetras | 92% | 93% | 100% |
| 4 |  |
New Relic | Lew Cirne | 87% | 93% | 90% |
| 5 |  |
Chegg | Dan Rosenweig | 87% | 85% | 82% |
| 6 |  |
Credit Karma | Kenneth Lin | 86% | 92% | 77% |
| 7 |  |
Zenefits | Jay Fulcher | 80% | 85% | 85% |
Our Data:
— Comparably is uniquely positioned as an expert career monitoring resource on the topic since our salary and culture database is comprised largely of tech employe
— A large database of hundreds of thousands of salaries and job titles, along with over 1 million structured and comprehensive employee ratings anonymously shared on Comparably from March 2016 to June 2017.
— Employees hail from small, mid-size, and large tech companies (VC-funded, privately-held, and public) to household brands like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, etc.
Our Methodology:
As the leader in structured workplace culture data, a CEO’s approval rating on Comparably is not simply asked in a YES/NO format; it is asked on a sliding scale from 1-10. We also segment how females (gender score) and various ethnicities (diversity score) rate their CEOs.
From the 1 million employee ratings within our database, we pulled the CEOs in tech with an overall 80% approval rating with the following criteria for the most accurate comparison
— Small companies (100-1,500 employees): at least 25+ CEO ratings;
— Mid-size companies (1,500-3,500 employees): at least 40+ CEO ratings;
— Large companies (more than 3,500 employees): at least 80+ CEO ratings.
Results: 5,000+ employee ratings of their respective CEOs.
