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Google Remains Top Employer
- TechCrunch, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:29 PM
Despite showing a few gray hairs, Google remains a highly desirable employer, reports TechCrunch, citing the latest Employees’ Choice Awards from Glassdoor, a jobs and career community where employees can anonymously rate companies and CEOs. Based on surveys collected from U.S. employees in 2011, the top five Best Places to Work were: Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Facebook, MITRE, and Google.
“Facebook actually slipped from the top spot last year to number 3 on the 2012 list and Google had moved up to the fifth slot from number 30 on last year’s list,” remarks TechCrunch. The findings must be music to Google’s earns as it faces increasing competition for talented engineers, sales people, and business leaders. In a broader sense, the data also suggests that Google’s brand is alive and well among key demographics.
Limited to the tech sector, the 2012 best places to work in technology were Facebook, MITRE Google, Apple and Rackspace. Other tech companies that made the list include Salesforce (which came in 13th place); SAP (22nd place); Intel (32nd place); and Groupon (40th place).
