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Today, Fortune released its list of the “100 Best Companies to Work for 2012,” which includes companies like Google, Boston Consulting and SAS Institute… but interestingly not Apple. We were curious to see what other companies made the Fortune list, or didn’t make it, and compare to Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2012.
Fortune has just released its annual list of most admired companies. What is a ‘most admired” company you ask? Fortune describes them as those companies that have the best reputations. So of course we had to ask: Best reputation according to whom?
We put Fortune’s annual list of most admired companies to the test and turned to their employee’s company reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to see how they stack up.
What companies do you admire? Fortune Magazine set out to answer just that question when they conducted their annual survey of businesspeople to name the companies they most admired from any industry. We looked at the top 50 Most Admired Companies to find out if external opinions matched internal ones.
Find out how employee opinion compares…
Today Fortune released their list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For 2010”, and we wanted to do a little side by side comparison to see how their list stacks up against Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. While both lists rely on employee feedback, Glassdoor’s list exclusively represents Employees’ Choice as it takes into account all the anonymous company reviews submitted throughout the year, instead of a short period of time, and does not allow companies to nominate themselves – employees do that through surveys in which they rate and review their employer*.
What we found most interesting was that Glassdoor’s Best Place to Work, Southwest Airlines, was absent from their list, and our #2 slot, General Mills, was ranked #90. It was #1 on our list last year, and barely made Fortune’s rankings at #99. The number one company on Fortune’s listing, SAS, did not make the Best Places to Work top 50 because it had too few reviews to qualify, but it does have a 4.0 rating on Glassdoor, and the CEO, Jim Goodnight, has a 73% approval rating. Fortune’s #2 company, Edward Jones, was also lauded by employees on Glassdoor, however, it was #24 on our list.
Surprisingly ...
As some of you may know in late December 2008, Glassdoor announced the Employee’s Choice Best Places to Work award. Today, Fortune has announced their annual 100 Best Places to Work For. See below the top 50 companies that made their list and the top 50 companies that made the Glassdoor list.
Here are some of the highlights when comparing the top 50 Best Places to Work:
Only 30% of companies recognized by Fortune made it into Glassdoor’s employee-selected top 10 companies
11 companies make both Glassdoor and Fortunes Top 50 Best Places to Work (see those highlighted in yellow)
Glassdoor’s #1 Best Place to Work, General Mills, falls to 99th place on Fortune’s list
Fortune’s #1 Best Place to Work, NetApp, makes the 10th spot on Glassdoor’s list
It’s surprising to see that eBay pops up on Fortune’s Top 100 list as a Best Place to Work. Based on the company ratings available at Glassdoor, eBay was actually one of the lowest rated companies according to employees. Currently eBay receives a modest 2.8 company rating and CEO John Donahoe garners a low 20% approval rating. (eBay ranked 83rd on the Fortune list)
Glassdoor 50 Best Places to Work
Fortune Best Places to Work
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Company
Company
1
General Mills
NetApp
2
Bain & Company
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