Siva Gurumurthy, SVP of Engineering for artificial intelligence-powered hardware and software company KeepTruckin, says it’s the mass disruption the company promised and offered that attracted him, after careers with Twitter, Yahoo, and IBM … Read full-story
In October, Comparably will unveil our next set of Best Places to Work Awards in these categories: Happiest Employees, Best Compensation, Best Work-Life Balance, and Best Perks Benefits … Read full-story
The growing pains go on as the post-pandemic landscape continues to settle and firm up at its own pace, never quite jelling into that New Normal that we all keep expecting to be signing up for soon. The reasons for this stop-and-start process are only human: we’ve never been here before, in this spot, with so … Read full-story
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, many organizations are faced with a variety of operational challenges. Some physical office locations are still shut down while others are opening back up to a hybrid model. In this piece, we explore how leaders can successfully onboard employees in this new paradigm. Pre-COVID, most businesses had a … Read full-story
When it comes to talent acquisition, organizations have a number of avenues to pursue. In this article, we explore the top methods used for attracting and retaining the best talent that is available in the marketplace. … Read full-story
In the ever-evolving business landscape, it’s important to embrace change in order to grow and thrive. In the newest episode of our Leadership Lessons series, Comparably CEO/Co-founder Jason Nazar had the chance to speak to a leader who has changed the businesses he touched for the better in this constantly-changing global marketplace: Momentive (NASDAQ: MNTV) CEO Zander Lurie. A leader in agile experience management, … Read full-story
EARLY CAREER “In every job that I had early on in my career, I was typically either the youngest or the only person of color. This was back in the late 90s and the early 2000s,” says Brandi Riggins, Global Head of DE&I at Guidewire Software. “You didn’t hear the word diversity a lot in … Read full-story
Lisa Atherton, President & CEO at Textron Systems tells us “it’s been a crazy career” since she graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and she really means it. Her goal was to become a prosecutor once she left the Armed Forces and make sure bad guys got punished. However, life took a turn, she … Read full-story
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been listed in the number one spot of Compararbly’s recently unveiled list of the Best CEOs for Women. Narayen previously won the top slot in this category in 2018. Ratings from Adobe’s own female employees vaunted Narayen to the top spot, just beating out chief executives from Farmers Insurance and … Read full-story
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has taken the top slot in Comparably’s Best CEO’s for Diversity award, a rundown of the 50 best chief executives of large companies that have been rated exceptionally well in anonymous sentiment ratings by the company’s own employees of color (non-Caucasian) on Comparably.com over a period of the previous 12 months. The … Read full-story
Comparably just released its set of annual awards highlighting the best CEOs and companies, including its annual Best CEOs for Women, Best CEOs for Diversity, Best Leadership, and Best Companies for Career Growth honors. These lists showcase the leaders who are helping to drive positive culture change across companies large and small. Check out our full coverage of each category here: Best CEOs for Diversity 2021 … Read full-story
Comparably’s annual Best Companies for Career Growth is derived from millions of ratings from employees who anonymously rated their professional development opportunities on Comparably.com over a 12-month period (June 23, 2020 through June 23, 2021). The Top 50 ranked list is segmented by Large companies (more than 500 employees) and Small/Mid-size companies (fewer than 500 employees). Best Companies for Career Growth: Large … Read full-story
Comparably’s annual Best Leadership Teams is derived from millions of anonymous employee ratings on executive leadership teams and direct managers on Comparably.com over a 12-month period. … Read full-story
Comparably’s annual Best CEOs for Diversity represents the top-ranked CEOs, based solely on anonymous sentiment ratings from employees of color (non-Caucasian) on Comparably.com in the previous 12 months (June 23, 2020-June 23, 2021). Derived from 10 million ratings across 60,000 companies, the list is segmented by Top 50 CEOs of Large companies (more than 500 … Read full-story
Comparably’s Best CEOs for Women 2021 represents the top-ranked CEOs, as rated by female employees on Comparably.com in the previous 12 months. … Read full-story
We’ll never really know what our pets thought of our response to the COVID pandemic. Suddenly, most of us were there all of the time, with them at home. Before, we’d been gone for 10 or so hours a day. Most of our pets were thrilled about this, especially the dogs. The cats, always harder … Read full-story
The Bay Area-based software company, KeepTruckin, has a holistic philosophy regarding the wellbeing of its staff, providing benefits and programs intended to help with a broad and thoughtful swath of their employees’ needs. We spoke to VP of People Operations Shane McCauley as well as Total Rewards Manager Brittany Thorson about KeepTruckin’s approach to taking … Read full-story
Since food industry innovator and leader Brian Niccol joined Chipotle Mexican Grill (Nasdaq: CMG) as its CEO in 2018, the company has been virtually unstoppable. Within two years of his tenure, nearly all 2,500 Chipotle locations had been retrofitted for the future with digital ordering capabilities and the business had rolled out approximately 100 “Chipotlanes,” … Read full-story
As a leader of Boston’s placement firm and a Top 100 Women-Led Business, Hollister Staffing, Director of Recruiting Katie Buchta is helping to build upon a culture of inclusion and diversity. Also recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” Hollister Staffing is a leader at connecting skilled talent with companies looking to fill key positions … Read full-story
“I think if you spoke to any HR professional, the one thing they’re not going to tell you is as a child, they were dreaming of being an HR professional,” says Rebecca Pacillas, chief people officer at American Advisors Group (AAG), the top lender in the American reverse mortgage industry. “But I suspect they were … Read full-story
The ways in which employees determine how satisfied they are at work are changing faster than many of us realize. As a culture, we’re not that many decades into recognizing the benefits of a healthy work culture on the bottom line – and now, with the thunderbolt of the COVID pandemic, that healthy work culture needs … Read full-story
Growing a software company, let alone scaling globally, is no easy feat. For the latest episode of Comparably and Entrepreneur's Leadership Lessons series, here's the inside scoop from a true industry veteran with a storied 30-year career leading butt software businesses: Medallia (NYSE: MDLA) President/CEO Leslie Stretch … Read full-story
Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer for Vertafore, is laser-focused on developing his people and solving complex problems. As North America’s InsurTech leader for more than 50 years, Vertafore is the software solutions partner for independent insurance agents and brokers, carriers, and MGAs, and is transforming the industry and providing career opportunities worldwide. As the CTO, … Read full-story
Engineers are a rare breed. It’s not just the paycheck or the benefits that inspire their finest work, but the actual challenges they’re offered to solve. Engineering talent has never been more valuable than it is today, so here are ten companies that are currently offering engineers the kind of big, meaty problems the best … Read full-story
It’s no secret that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) has long been considered a male-dominated field, and that such assumptions have made it challenging for women to have gender equality in the field for decades. IPC Systems strives to break down those barriers twofold, with a focus on both hiring and investing in the development … Read full-story
Coverage of 17 companies and their current DE&I efforts. … Read full-story
There is surely no greater disruptor of the way we work than a pandemic. The COVID pandemic reshuffled the deck for most of us in terms of where we work, how we work, and when we work. While “the future of working” has always been something to come on, it seems that a real new … Read full-story
Join Ariella Coombs, Director of Career Support at Work It Daily for an insightful 1-hour live event on The 8 Things Job Seekers Need To Know Before Applying To A Company! … Read full-story
With the dust kicked up by the COVID-19 pandemic finally beginning to clear for many, it’s a new frontier of working we see before us in the still-hazy aftermath. Remote work, long a possibility, became a necessity after the virus shook our lives and businesses up. Now that a return to office working is potentially a … Read full-story
What the pandemic has taught everyone is that pivoting business operations in crisis can be a challenge. Comparably Co-founder CEO Jason Nazar recently invited a renowned leader in sales, operations, and technology to discuss the winning strategies for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to drive product innovation and growth during this monumental time. For the … Read full-story
