{"id":1001,"date":"2017-06-29T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2019-03-02T00:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T00:40:14","slug":"top-public-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/top-public-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing the Top 5 Public Tech Companies: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook & Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft — they\u2019re five of the biggest publicly traded tech companies and fierce competitors in the fight for talent.<\/b> 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.<\/p>\n

KEY FINDINGS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— Google<\/a> <\/b>is No. 1 for overall company culture. Apple<\/a> <\/b>and Amazon<\/a> <\/b>rank at the bottom.<\/p>\n

— Apple<\/a><\/b> is the best company for women, <\/b>followed by Google<\/a> & Microsoft<\/a>. Amazon<\/a> is lowest.<\/b><\/p>\n

— Facebook<\/a> & Google<\/a><\/b> tie for best diversity. Apple<\/a> & Amazon<\/a><\/b> are at the bottom.<\/p>\n

— Facebook<\/a><\/b> ranks first for perks and benefits.<\/b><\/p>\n

— Mark Zuckerberg<\/b> is the top-rated CEO <\/b>of the group; Jeff Bezos <\/b>is the lowest-rated CEO<\/b>.<\/p>\n

— Amazon<\/a><\/b> is the second most-admired company<\/b> after Google<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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OVERALL CULTURE SCORE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How employees rate the overall culture at each company based on five key benchmarks: Compensation, Leadership, Team, Environment and Sentiment.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Google, <\/b>2-Facebook, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple\/Amazon<\/p>\n

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A CLOSER LOOK…<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

Compensation<\/b><\/p>\n

How satisfied employees are with their salary and\/or equity compensation.<\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/p>\n

<\/b>Rank: 1-Google, <\/b>2-Microsoft, 3-Amazon\/Apple\/Facebook<\/p>\n

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Leadership<\/b><\/p>\n

Employee sentiment towards the CEO, executive team, and managers at the company.<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Facebook, <\/b>2-Google, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple, 5-Amazon<\/p>\n

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Team<\/b><\/p>\n

How employees feel about their coworkers and the way meetings are run at each company.<\/p>\n

\"4\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Facebook<\/b>, 2-Google, 3-Amazon, 4-Apple, 5-Microsoft<\/p>\n

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Environment<\/b><\/p>\n

How employees rate the workplace environment and the time they spend their each day.<\/p>\n

\"5\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Apple\/Google, <\/b>2-Facebook, 3-Microsoft, 4-Amazon<\/p>\n

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Sentiment<\/b><\/p>\n

How employees feel about going to work each day, the company\u2019s future success, and perception by customers.<\/p>\n

<\/b>\"6\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Google, <\/b>2-Facebook, 3-Amazon, 4-Apple\/Microsoft<\/p>\n

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OTHER INDICATORS<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

CEO score<\/b><\/p>\n

Employee sentiment toward the CEO.<\/p>\n

\"CEOS\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Mark Zuckerberg, <\/b>2-Satya Nadella\/Sundar Pichai, 3-Tim Cook, 4-Jeff Bezos<\/p>\n

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Gender score<\/b><\/p>\n

How women rate their experience at each company.<\/p>\n

\"WOMEN\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Apple, <\/b>2-Facebook\/Google\/Microsoft, 3-Amazon<\/p>\n

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Diversity score<\/b><\/p>\n

How minorities rate their experience at each company.<\/p>\n

\"FBOOK\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Facebook\/Google,<\/b> 2-Microsoft, 3-Amazon, 4-Apple<\/p>\n

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Perks and Benefits<\/b><\/p>\n

How employees rate their benefits (health care, PTO, sick days, etc.)<\/p>\n

\"PERKS\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Facebook, <\/b>2-Google, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple, 5-Amazon<\/p>\n

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Retention<\/b><\/p>\n

How successful the company is at creating the kind of workplace that retains employees.<\/p>\n

\"RET\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Facebook\/Google, <\/b>2-Amazon, 3-Microsoft, 4-Apple<\/p>\n

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Professional Development<\/b><\/p>\n

How successful the company is at providing valuable feedback, opportunities for mentoring, and a challenging work environment.<\/p>\n

\"PROF\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Amazon, <\/b>2-Google, 3-Microsoft, 4-Facebook, 5-Apple<\/p>\n

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Most Admired by the Public<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How Comparably users (employees & non-employees) perceive each company. Results are from the responses of more than 1,000 participants.<\/p>\n

Perception by users in the technology sector:<\/b><\/p>\n

\"C\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Google, <\/b>2-Amazon, 3-Apple, 4-Facebook\/Microsoft<\/p>\n

Perception by users outside of the technology sector:<\/b><\/p>\n

\"D\"<\/p>\n

Rank: 1-Google, <\/b>2-Amazon, 3-Apple, 4-Microsoft, 5-Facebook<\/p>\n

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ABOUT OUR DATA<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

— 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.<\/p>\n

— 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.<\/p>\n

— 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.<\/p>\n

OUR METHODOLOGY<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

— The data unveiling the insights into what it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

— 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.<\/p>\n

— The benchmark was having at least<\/u> 100 employee participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft — they\u2019re 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 … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}