For all the high-profile woes Facebook has encountered in recent months
because of its botched $16 billion stock offering last spring and complaints by users
about privacy, the social-media powerhouse remains an attractive
company to work for. In fact, Facebook Inc. topped the latest list of
best employers, as compiled by employment-information company Glassdoor
Inc.
Facebook faces several legal challenges
after a technical glitch on the initial day of trading in May prevented
some trades from going through, angering investors and reducing
interest in the shares. After lining up to pay the initial offering
price of $38 a share, investors today are paying much less -- around $28 a share.
Despite the Silicon Valley company's stumbles, founder and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg remains at the forefront of social-media innovation and
popular among his 3,200 employees. Trust in the 28-year-old's leadership
abilities was one reason that Facebook employees rated the company so
highly.
Pay Is Awesome, Even For Interns
As BusinessInsider notes,
even interns at Facebook are paid handsomely, earning about $5,602 a
month, or an annual salary of about $67,000, based on 28 reviews
published on Glassdoor's site. That's about $25,000 more than the
average U.S. worker, who earns $42,976.
According to Glassdoor, Facebook employees also appreciate the
companies' many perks and benefits, and believe in its commitment to
"hacker culture" and ability to enhance the lives of the more than 1
billion current Facebook users.
But those characteristics aren't unique to any one company or sector,
which may explain why on the same day that Glassdoor released its Top 50 Best Places to Work for 2013 list, competing website CareerBliss.com unveiled its 50 Happiest Companies of 2013, which didn't feature Facebook at all.
But Pfizer Tops A Rival's List
Topping CareerBliss' rankings? Pharmaceutical-giant Pfizer Inc., which has been plagued by lay offs.
In naming Pfizer the "Happiest Company in America," CareerBliss said
its data showed that Pfizer employees particularly "enjoy the people
they work with and the support they get" on the job.
The rival websites say they use different methodologies to determine
scores and rankings, which account for the disparate outcomes, though
the factors considered are similar. They include such things as pay,
benefits, work/life balance, company management, and corporate culture
and values, culled from reviews of employees posted on their respective
sites.
Based on Glassdoor's data, here are the 10 companies that topped its Best Places list.
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Boston Consulting Group
Glassdoor score: 4.2
Number of employees: 1,958 (U.S.)
Headquarters: Boston
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In-N-Out Burger Inc.
Glassdoor score: 4.2
Number of employees: 10,000+
Headquarters: Irvine, Calif.
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National Instruments Corp.
Glassdoor score: 4.3
Number of employees: About 6,300
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
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Edelman
Glassdoor score: 4.3
Number of employees: 4,500+
Headquarters: New York
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Google Inc.
Glassdoor score: 4.3
Number of employees: 32,500
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif.
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M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Glassdoor score: 4.3
Number of employees: 18,000
Headquarters: Houston
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Bain & Co.
Glassdoor score: 4.5
Number of employees: 5,000+
Headquarters: Boston
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Riverbed Technology
Glassdoor score: 4.5
Number of employees: 1,610
Headquarters: San Francisco
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McKinsey & Co.
Glassdoor score: 4.5
Number of employees: 17,000+
Headquarters: New York
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Facebook Inc.
Glassdoor score: 4.7
Number of employees: 3,200
Headquarters: Menlo Park, Calif.
By David Schepp
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