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Best Places to Work 2010

Employees' Choice Awards

Glassdoor is excited to announce our second annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work. The top 50 winners were selected by the people who know these companies best – their employees.

2010

Top 50 Winners

1

LUV AIRLINE

Southwest Airlines is the best company that I have ever worked for. There truly is LUV flowing throughout this family of people that I have come to know. I have worked for the company now for several years and have made…

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2

Don't believe the hype (at least not if you are in Marketing)

* Very well respected company that's done well in…

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4

Great place for accelerating a post-MBA career

Bain is a great place to continue the MBA…

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6

MITRE

4.1

Not For the Young

Lots of different work, if you get bored, move on to a different task. Lots of travel if…

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7

Great first year job, but difficult.

- You get to work for a prestigious firm - Surrounded by smart and talented workers…

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9

Preaching false hopes....

Process driven activities pushed positive results. Everyone was very intelligent and…

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10

Good Place to work overall!

good technical growth, strong products, flexible, decent pay and benefits, good…

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13

Great place to start a career

Great work/life balance Plenty of opportunity for growth Laid back, low stress work…

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14

Google

3.9

Great place to start career in Silicon Valley

Tons of career development, transparency…

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15

NetApp

3.9

Great place to work

Great products Culture is friendly and helpful Little arrogance Clients love us Let…

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16

Review of Prime Brokerage Trade Support Team.

Very focused on the success of team, everyone is…

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17

FactSet

3.9

Factset is a good company overall

I like the people quite a bit, and free lunch 4 days a week is also exciting. As far as…

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18

Medtronic

3.9

Company that embraces diversity in skills, action and thought

Diversity is embraced. Great place for someone in…

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19

Publix

3.8

Everyone out for themselves.

Publix is a great place to work because everyone has a hand in the success of the…

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20

Chevron

3.8

Culture

Consensus building culture and team oriented. Building long relationships is important.

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21

FedEx

3.8

Ridiculously Overworked

Lots of recognition. Almost too much which becomes meaningless over time. Ok work life…

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22

Apple

3.8

Great environment, pushy sales

Great Atmosphere. Helpful colleagues. Lot's of enthusiasm. Helpful management with lots…

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23

Edelman

3.8

An eye opening experience to be a junior staffer

The mentoring progam allows you to learn more…

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24

Overrated

Great name recongition. Excellent sales training. Excellent training for Series…

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25

Qualcomm

3.7

Great place in a great city

Qualcomm is still able to attract some of the smartest people. I think the smartness…

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26

Could not be Happier Here!

Careerbulider is a phenomenal company. The leadership is strong and open minded with…

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27

Novell

3.7
28

SLB is a great place to work for.

1. good work environment with smart people 2. good salary and benefits 3. chance to…

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29

Adobe

3.7

Great place to work, company has problems

Excellent benefits, opportunities to learn and…

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30

Good place to work for to round out and build consulting skills

Exposure to different areas of the business. The…

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31
32

Job

Benefits Minimal Mgmt Interferance Bonus plan. Flexible Hours. Every day is differnt…

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33

EMC

3.7

EMC More Concerned About Numbers than People

Good benefits. Paychecks arrive on time in my…

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34

Respect for the orange pork chop

Excellent benefits including vehicle, retirement, medical, along with competitive salary…

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35

Cat Tractor

Plenty of opportunity, good pay, worldwide operation provides insight into large…

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36

Graphics Operator

Great people, great pay, great benefits

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37

Paychex

3.6

Average- good entry to mid-level sales position.

Name recognition, very stable company, great…

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39

Ok...

Great pay and benefits Flexible schedule

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40

Rackspace

3.6

Rackspace Focuses on its People.

Strengths-based employment. Rackspace hires people based on talents an strengths, not…

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41

Great Place to Work

Broad, exciting opportunities for cross training and career changes at a bell-weather…

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42

Cintas

3.6

Need some major changes here before it's too late

pay ok ,benefits good ecept for retirement…

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43

Great for experienced SAP resources

If you work with SAP software or services, the network you build by working at SAP is…

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44

Intuit

3.6

Good, but I wanted something more...

Pros * Total compensation package was good ( pay, stocks, 401k matching ) * Beautiful…

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45

Best Buy

3.6

Not satisfied but not bad of a company.

It has acceptable employee discount but could be better. Also works around school…

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46

Harris

3.6

Harris a great place to learn about the industry.

1) Harris will give you the potential, to learn…

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47

Not what it is protrayed to be.

Licensing is paid for.New hire non-repayable draw, for the first several weeks, good…

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48

So far so good

The pay is ok, and my coworkers are friendly. Hard work seems to be recognized for the…

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49

PwC

3.5

new to the company.

I chose this company over others because I had a good first impression with the…

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50

Marriott

3.5

Great Place to Work

Management is great and fair. Great benefits, 40 hour work week, great people to work…

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Employee Ratings Scale: 4.01–5.0 = “Very Satisfied”   3.51–4.0 = “Satisfied”
Note: All ratings are as of December 1, 2009
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How the Top 50 Were Selected

The Top 50 were selected from more than 37,000 companies reviewed by the nearly 100,000 employees who completed a 20-question survey on Glassdoor in 2008. To be eligible for the list, a company must have had at least all of the following:

  • 25 reviews from United States-based employees between December 1, 2008 and December 1, 2009,
  • "satisfied" ratings overall and across all categories, and
  • a CEO with at least a 50% approval rating.

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