It’s PepsiCo vs. The Coca-Cola Company for today’s Culture Showdown. That’s right, one of the oldest mainstream company rivalries in American culture will be living out their decades-old battle again today using Comparably’s employee data. So what is it really like working for Coca-Cola? How is the company culture at Pepsi? Read on for some inside insights. … Read full-story
It’s the battle of the big box behemoths for today’s Culture Showdown: Target vs. Best Buy. Both companies are hanging on the best they can as the culture continues to shift its focus to online shopping, so the future for both is unclear. But while they’re still standing, let’s take a look via Comparably’s data at … Read full-story
In December of 2018, a surprising report came out from Restaurant Business claiming that McDonald’s chief competitor in the fast-food world was no longer Burger King or Wendy’s, but was in fact the Atlanta-based chicken sandwich chain Chick-fil-A. In fact, the only chain to generate more growth in 2018 than Chick-fil-A was McDonald’s. So in the … Read full-story
Even on Valentine’s Day, dating the boss carries with it a sometimes uneasy connotation. Maybe its due to supervisors or bosses dating lower-ranked employees, and giving them (or appearing to give them) preferential treatment. The #MeToo era certainly hasn’t helped the image of people in positions of power dating those who work for them, and … Read full-story
For today’s Culture Showdown, it’s two staples of brick-and-mortar retail: Nordstrom and Macy’s. What is the company culture like at Macy’s? How is the pay at Nordstrom? Let’s take a look at Comparably’s data to get a peek behind the curtain of both chains to see how workers on the inside feel about their jobs and … Read full-story
There’s no denying that love is in the air as mid-February approaches. We thought it made some sense to take a look at a few dating apps for today’s Culture Showdown, so we settled on eHarmony and Match.com. Both are venerable war horses in the world of online dating, predating most other popular apps by decades. … Read full-story
There’s nobody better suited to judge a particular company’s interview process than employees who have been through it. Not only have they been asked the questions new prospective hires will be asked, they’ve also now seen how the realities of the job sync up with the impressions they were given of their role during the … Read full-story
Two mega-titans of the automotive industry are pitted against each other for today’s Culture Showdown: Toyota and General Motors. How is Toyota’s company culture? How happy are employees at General Motors? Which company offers more substantial benefits? Let’s see what Comparably’s data tells us about how employees of both company feel. About Toyota’s company culture, one employee … Read full-story
With spring not too far off, our thoughts turn to romance. It’s all humans can do to resist hope of new love as the weather slowly begins to warm and flowers start to make their yearly plans. But what about in the office? Romance in the office has always seemed to carry with it a … Read full-story
For today’s Culture Showdown, it’s business travel management company TripActions versus bookings company TripAdvisor. Where are employees happier? Let’s see what Comparably’s data tells us about how workers at Trip Actions and TripAdvisor feel about their company cultures. OVERALL CULTURE A TripActions employees is excited about his company’s culture, citing “the energy at TripActions and … Read full-story
Are employees happier working for Sephora or Ulta Beauty? Is Ulta Beauty’s company culture more supportive? It’s the battle of the beauty store chains for today’s Culture Showdown. So let’s take a look behind the curtain at Comparably’s data and see how employees of each company feel about where they work. OVERALL CULTURE One Sephora employee … Read full-story
It’s a battle of the online real estate database companies for today’s Culture Showdown. Let’s see how Zillow and Redfin employees feel about their companies based on Comparably’s data. OVERALL CULTURE One Zillow employee writes: “Great company and culture, working on problems that are impactful for society.” Another adds that there is a “strong focus on work-life balance … Read full-story
Originally, psychologists Suzanne Imes and Rose Clance coined the term “imposter syndrome” to describe women with successful careers who chalked up their success to luck and concurrently discounted all their abiliites and achievements. But it wasn’t long before it was accepted that men suffered imposter syndrome just as often. The main fear those with this … Read full-story
DoorDash and Postmates are two private San Francisco-based delivery companies with an intense rivalry. However, that didn’t prevent the two companies from floating the idea of a merger in 2018. The merger, which never materialized, was meant to make the two companies a united front that could take on industry leaders GrubHub, UberEats, and Amazon. That’s an … Read full-story
What reasonable requests do employees have of their employers? Beyond a simple paycheck, most of us in the current culture look at our jobs as something that will enrich us in other ways, especially in terms of professional development. We want to end up with more skills than we started with. In fact, of all … Read full-story
Companies conduct phone interviews for a number of reasons, generally: They’re a cheaper and more practical way to interview out-of-town candidates or remote workers, and they serve as an initial screening to weed out potential interviewees who aren’t a good enough potential fit to bring in for an in-person interview. That doesn’t mean you can … Read full-story
Netflix and Hulu are the two most popular streaming services in the U.S. Netflix leads with 58.5 million subscribers in the country, while Hulu comes in 2ndwith 25 million subscribers. But the cost of both services’ basic plans are going in opposite directions. Netflix subscriptions are getting more expensive, with its standard HD streaming plan now priced … Read full-story
Disrupt or be disrupted – that’s what it means to be in business today. From transportation to ecommerce, real estate to finance, startups are showing that the way forward means shaking up the status quo. For a handful of those startups, the path has been especially impressive. As of January 2019, there are more than … Read full-story
If you’re doing it right, work can feel on the best days like your home away from home. And in those cases, your desk is like your teenage bedroom in your parents house. It’s your home base at this home away from home, it’s where you are expected and encouraged to show off a little … Read full-story
Who will win in the battle for dominance between Walmart and Amazon? Whoever comes out on top, it will likely determine the future of retail… and it may all come down to online grocery sales. The match began in 2016 when Walmart, the nearly 70-year-old brick-and-mortar discount retailer, purchased Jet.com in a bid to infringe into the … Read full-story
The amount of men who believe women are represented well enough in leadership positions has dropped since the last time we reported on the survey topic almost one year ago. This suggests that a year of news stories and reports highlighting employment and wage disparities for women may have had a real effect on the opposite … Read full-story
When you’ve got a full plate of work in front of you, it can feel like the beginning of a marathon. So the last thing you might want to think about when faced with a lot of work is stopping to learn some better ways to schedule it all and get things done. But take … Read full-story
Don’t let Monday through Friday come at you every week like a street gang looking to rough you up. It’s a easy reshuffle to make sense of your week at work, to master it time-wise and make that familiar 40+ hour structure work for you. Diving blindly in only creates stress, and not knowing just … Read full-story
Hopefully you don’t know the feeling, but chances are you do: 76% of Americans suffer from what has been called “the Sunday scaries.” It starts for most of us as we leave our live-in-the-moment childhoods behind and begin to plan for the future, to study for our SATs, get into a good university, find a good … Read full-story
Despite the strong sense that networking with people in your industry is the best way to land a new job, most people seem to be have gotten their first interview for their current job via online applications. This should ease the worries of those lacking networking skills, and also alert veteran job seekers that a … Read full-story
Most careers, like most lives, do not proceed in a linear fashion. We imagine a progression of school to job to promotion to finally being the big boss of them all, but very few of our stories eventually read that way. Instead, it’s all fits and false starts, back to square one, life lessons, and … Read full-story
One of the biggest contributors to job satisfaction is the relationship we have with our coworkers. It makes sense: in today’s 24/7 hyperconnected world, we spend many of our waking hours interacting with our colleagues, even on nights and weekends. In an effort to learn more about these important coworker bonds, Comparably asked thousands of its … Read full-story
Every new employee is a stranger in a strange land for their first few weeks on a new job. They’re likely commuting to a new part of the city, they’re working in a new building, they’ve got a whole lot of new lunch places to try out – and they’re surrounded by a group of … Read full-story
We all know work-related stress is a near constant in modern life. Success at work drives our lives and shapes our fate, so a certain amount of white-knuckling is to be expected. But we also know the effect of a million little stressors all ganging up on us and turning an average workday into an … Read full-story
We as human beings have always prized our intellect over all else, mostly because we’re the species that got the gold ribbon for accumulation of smarts. As a result of this, however, old-fashioned emotion began to be treated in human society as a sort of outdated user system that intelligence long ago replaced and rendered … Read full-story
