Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft — they’re five of the biggest publicly traded tech companies and fierce competitors in the fight for talent. Since the tech industry has been hit with a barrage of news stories on gender and diversity pay gap as well as culture issues, we were curious to see how employees at these specific companies really feel about their respective leadership and work environments.
KEY FINDINGS
— Google is No. 1 for overall company culture. Apple and Amazon rank at the bottom.
— Apple is the best company for women, followed by Google & Microsoft. Amazon is lowest.
— Facebook & Google tie for best diversity. Apple & Amazon are at the bottom.
— Facebook ranks first for perks and benefits.
— Mark Zuckerberg is the top-rated CEO of the group; Jeff Bezos is the lowest-rated CEO.
— Amazon is the second most-admired company after Google
OVERALL CULTURE SCORE
How employees rate the overall culture at each company based on five key benchmarks: Compensation, Leadership, Team, Environment and Sentiment.
Rank: 1-Google, 2-Facebook, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple/Amazon
A CLOSER LOOK…
Compensation
How satisfied employees are with their salary and/or equity compensation.
Rank: 1-Google, 2-Microsoft, 3-Amazon/Apple/Facebook
Leadership
Employee sentiment towards the CEO, executive team, and managers at the company.
Rank: 1-Facebook, 2-Google, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple, 5-Amazon
Team
How employees feel about their coworkers and the way meetings are run at each company.
Rank: 1-Facebook, 2-Google, 3-Amazon, 4-Apple, 5-Microsoft
Environment
How employees rate the workplace environment and the time they spend their each day.
Rank: 1-Apple/Google, 2-Facebook, 3-Microsoft, 4-Amazon
Sentiment
How employees feel about going to work each day, the company’s future success, and perception by customers.
Rank: 1-Google, 2-Facebook, 3-Amazon, 4-Apple/Microsoft
OTHER INDICATORS
CEO score
Employee sentiment toward the CEO.
Rank: 1-Mark Zuckerberg, 2-Satya Nadella/Sundar Pichai, 3-Tim Cook, 4-Jeff Bezos
Gender score
How women rate their experience at each company.
Rank: 1-Apple, 2-Facebook/Google/Microsoft, 3-Amazon
Diversity score
How minorities rate their experience at each company.
Rank: 1-Facebook/Google, 2-Microsoft, 3-Amazon, 4-Apple
Perks and Benefits
How employees rate their benefits (health care, PTO, sick days, etc.)
Rank: 1-Facebook, 2-Google, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple, 5-Amazon
Retention
How successful the company is at creating the kind of workplace that retains employees.
Rank: 1-Facebook/Google, 2-Amazon, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple
Professional Development
How successful the company is at providing valuable feedback, opportunities for mentoring, and a challenging work environment.
Rank: 1-Amazon, 2-Google, 3-Microsoft, 4-Facebook, 5-Apple
Most Admired by the Public
How Comparably users (employees & non-employees) perceive each company. Results are from the responses of more than 1,000 participants.
Perception by users in the technology sector:
Rank: 1-Google, 2-Amazon, 3-Apple, 4-Facebook/Microsoft
Perception by users outside of the technology sector:
Rank: 1-Google, 2-Amazon, 3-Apple, 4-Microsoft, 5-Facebook
ABOUT 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 employees within the tech industry.
— 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 May 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
— The data unveiling the insights into what it’s like to work at the Top 5 public tech companies were based on questions from hundreds of current employees at each company. They answered various questions within 5 key categories: 1) compensation; 2) leadership; 3) team; 4) work environment; and 5) sentiment rating.
— Questions were in Yes/No, True/False, 1-10 scale, and multiple choice format. For fairness and accuracy, each question was assigned a point value or averaged.
— The benchmark was having at least 100 employee participants.
