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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Becoming a parent and having a career should never be mutually exclusive ideas, but the reality is that we as humans only have a finite amount of time and concentration to give to anything, and some jobs demand such much attention and focus that it would seem to me an impossibility to also go through … Read full-story
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
One sure-fire way to let one of you employees know that you recognize their value to your company is to celebrate their birthday. Employee birthday celebrations can be extravagant or small-scale. You can take them out to a three-hour lunch or just gather everyone for fifteen minutes of cookies and birthday greetings. But supervisors and … Read full-story
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
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 tech boom continues, and it’s no wonder: a recent study showed that, as of the end of February 2019, there were half a million open tech jobs listed in the U.S. Not only that, but new ones are generated at almost 400% the rate of non-tech jobs, and they pay around twice as well to … Read full-story
Ever had to work with a difficult, angry, or grumpy boss for an extended period of time? Considering how much power a boss has over the workplace, there’s almost nothing that can derail one’s happiness and satisfaction at work like a boss who acts like he’s perpetually got a rock in his shoe. And we’re … Read full-story
Today Comparably looks at the company cultures of five major U.S. companies from the Insurance Industry: Allstate, Geico, Liberty Mutual, Nationwide, and Statefarm. We’ll be looking past market shares and product innovation to focus on how employees of each of the companies feel about working where they do, in order to offer some useful advice … Read full-story
Like many other industries, the Motion Picture Industry is going through intense changes in the cauldron of modern U.S. culture. From film to digital, from physical media to streaming, from a sixty-foot screen in a darkened theater to a 2-inch image on a cell phone, from movie stars to superheroes, from Humphrey Bogart to Lego Batman … Read full-story
Witness an industry in transition: These five companies – AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon – all major players in the Telecommunications Industry, used to traffic in delivering the sound of the human voice. Now, they are looking at a future where more and more people communicate with text messages and photos – even if … Read full-story
We’ve got a look at the Company Cultures of five companies involved with the Video Game Industry today: Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Riot Games and Sony. Giant Microsoft and Sony produce the popular Xbox and Playstation game consoles, respectively. Riot Games is best known for the “League of Legends” franchise, Blizzard has the “Warcraft” … Read full-story
Life is largely hills and valleys, and most of us at some point in our lives will find ourselves working in a toxic situation. Be it a rogue boss or a gossiping and unhappy staff, somewhere along the course of the fifteen different jobs most of us hold on average over the course of our … Read full-story
As the next chapter of an informal series we began recently with our look at the Supermarket and Grocery Industry, here are another five companies that do not offer the promise of glamour or substantial and rewarding advancement towards any neighbothood within an hour’s drive of Easy Street. But these jobs remain in many ways … Read full-story
Today we present a look into the Company Cultures of five of the biggest US supermarket chains – Albertsons, H–E–B, Publix, Whole Foods and Winn-Dixie. Many of us held jobs at supermarkets and groceries on our way up as younger people, and its a certainty that many people still do… So while there’s not a … Read full-story
Five companies from the Apparel Industry go head-to-head today, not on the quality of their garments or their place in the cultural pantheon, but instead in terms of Company Culture. Meet The Gap, Nike, Nordstrom, Ross Dress For Less and Victoria’s Secret. How do employees working for these clothiers feel about working for major apparel retailers? … Read full-story
Five notable automotive industry companies are matched up today: Ford, General Motors, Honda, Toyota and Tesla. Four old school carmakers and one disruptor. But we’re not interested in the fossil fuels vs. electric debate here – that battle will continue in our streets for a while to come as the entrenched established companies try to … Read full-story
The entertainment industry is the hoped-for glamour profession for dreamers everywhere, who flock to Los Angeles and elsewhere to get their shot at stardom or a career in movies and TV. But a closer look reveals that these companies are far from dream factories, and most work just like any other big U.S. business does: making decisions that affect their … Read full-story
