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Best Places to Work (2009)   (2009 Employee's Choice)

Glassdoor.com is excited to announce our first annual Employees' Choice Awards for Best Places to Work. Our Top 50 winners were selected by the people who know these companies best — their employees!

Top 50 Winners

1. General Mills

HQ: Minneapolis, MN

Industry: Pastas & Cereals

 CEO Approval Company Rating
General Mills Chairman and CEO Ken Powell

Ken Powell

Chairman and CEO

96% Approve

“Very Satisfied!”

4.5

A Demand Planner said:

“I'm proud to work for GMI!”

They are good community partners, they genuinely care about diversity, and they are well respected as a company. They are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for and their pay/benefits are competitive. The headquarters…is rather impressive as well boasting an impressive cafeteria, health facility…You could probably live on campus if you wanted to. These amenities go a long way into making the real life more manageable so that you can focus on performing well at your job.

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Company Ratings: 4.51 - 5.0 = "Very Satisfied".   3.5 - 4.5 = "Satisfied"

1.
General Mills
4.5
2.
Bain & Company
4.5
3.
Netflix
4.4
4.
Adobe
4.3
5.
Northwestern Mutual
4.2
6.
Whole Foods
4.2
7.
Google
4.1
8.
SAP
4.1
9.
Continental Airlines
4.1
10.
NetApp
4.0
11.
Intuit
4.0
12.
McKinsey & Company
4.0
13.
FactSet
3.9
14.
Boston Consulting
3.9
15.
Procter & Gamble
3.9
16.
Caterpillar
3.9
17.
Genentech
3.8
18.
CareerBuilder
3.8
19.
Apple
3.8
20.
Juniper Networks
3.8
21.
Marriott
3.8
22.
NIKE
3.8
23.
Ernst & Young Global
3.8
24.
MITRE
3.8
25.
Chevron
3.8
26.
Goldman Sachs
3.8
27.
Nordstrom
3.8
28.
Citrix Systems
3.7
29.
Schlumberger
3.7
30.
Booz Allen Hamilton
3.7
31.
National Instruments
3.7
32.
Novell
3.7
33.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
3.7
34.
American Express
3.6
35.
Cisco Systems
3.6
36.
USAA
3.6
37.
EMC
3.6
38.
Capital One
3.6
39.
QUALCOMM
3.6
40.
MetLife
3.6
41.
Lockheed Martin
3.6
42.
Texas Instruments
3.6
43.
US Army
3.6
44.
Deloitte
3.5
45.
Wells Fargo
3.5
46.
Best Buy
3.5
47.
salesforce.com
3.5
48.
Accenture
3.5
49.
FedEx
3.5
50.
Paychex
3.5

 

Note: All ratings are as of 12/15/08


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How the Top 50 Were Selected

The Top 50 were selected from more than 11,000 companies reviewed by the nearly 75,000 employees who completed a 20-question survey on Glassdoor.com in 2008. To be eligible for the list, a company must have had at least all of the following as of December 15, 2008:

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

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