Where are the greatest opportunities for women in tech right now?
In an effort to provide a positive alternative to the gender pay gap in tech, Comparably dug into its data to reveal which companies, CEOs, and cities provide the best cultural fits and compensation opportunities for women.
Since tech is one of the toughest glass ceilings to break through for women, Comparably is uniquely positioned as an expert jobs monitoring resource on the topic as our salary and culture database is comprised largely of employees within this sector. Our methodology is below.
KEY FINDINGS
Top Tech CEOs as rated by their female employees
A dozen CEOs scored an 80%+ approval rating by their female employees. The CEOs of Apple, Intuit, LinkedIn, and Microsoft scored high approval ratings by their female employees even though their respective companies did not make the cut.
An important note: there are fewer women in tech and though there are females in executive positions (COO, co-founder, CTO, CMO, heads of departments), few hold the CEO title and those who do tend to rate lower than their male counterparts.
Top tech companies as rated by their female employees
Not surprisingly half of the companies are located in Silicon Valley/Bay Area (Slack, Zenefits, Salesforce, Chegg) and Seattle (Zillow), but it’s Silicon Beach-based Cornerstone OnDemand that ranks No. 1 on the list.
Indeed from Austin ranked No. 3 followed by Hubspot from Boston at No. 4.
The Top 5 large public tech companies didn’t make the cut at all. According to the data, females in tech seem to have a more positive experience overall at smaller tech companies.
Best cities and jobs for women in tech
Not surprisingly, the most popular tech job titles and highest median salaries for women are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle, but Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Washington, DC also made the list.
An important note: although they tend to be compensated more, C-suite roles were not included in this specific part of our study because there were too few females in those positions to accurately compare salaries.
ABOUT OUR DATA
— 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 April 2016 to April 2017.
— Employees hail from small, mid-size, and large startups and VC-funded tech companies to household brands like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Uber, etc.
— The data unveiling the top CEOs and companies women are likely to find most rewarding to work for were based on questions current female employees answered in 5 key categories: 1) compensation; 2) leadership (CEO & executive team); 3) team (co-workers & dept); 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 to provide the final results.
— This unique data set was segmented by women within 3 different sizes of tech companies (small, mid-size, and large), the most common job titles, salaries, and lastly, by the cities where they reside.
