Top-Rated Glassdoor.com CEO Diane Greene Ousted

Posted by • July 9th, 2008 • 2 Comments

With the news this week about Diane Greene’s removal as CEO of VMware, we found it really interesting to see how notable CEOs are faring in the eyes of the employees.

According to employees who have posted on Glassdoor.com, Diane Greene had one of the highest CEO ratings at 84% (for those companies with more than 50 reviews), just behind Apple’s  Steve Jobs (90%), Intuit’s Brad Smith (88%) and Google’s Eric Schmidt (86%).   And as Kevin Maney of Portfolio points out, among the employees active on Glassdoor she was more popular than the parent company’s CEO (EMC’s Joe Tucci) who’s approval rating is in the middle of the pack at just 73%.

The VMware executive upheaval is one of the most gossip worthy events to have occurred in technology as of recent.

Below is a snapshot list of top 10 rated CEOs according to employee. The CEO approval ratings again are based on feedback from well over 50 employees per company.

  1. Steve Jobs, Apple – 90%
  2. Brad D. Smith, Intuit – 88%
  3. Eric E. Schmidt, Google – 86%
  4. Diane B. Greene, VMware – 84%*
  5. Jim Turley, Ernst & Young Global – 83%
  6. John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems – 83%
  7. Shantanu Narayen, Adobe – 78%
  8. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase – 76%
  9. Jim Quigley, Deloitte – 73%
  10. Joe Tucci, EMC – 73%

Tim A (one of the Tim's here at Glassdoor) is the Director of Product Management. Before Glassdoor he worked at Flickr and Yahoo!

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  • http://www.davidkspencer.com David Spencer

    It’s interesting that you can be both in the top ten and “middle of the pack,” but without knowing how many CEOs have 50 reviews or more it’s hard to judge that statement.

  • Tim Anderson

    Thanks David. You’re right – 73% isn’t the middle of the pack for our site overall. We have ratings for thousands of CEOs, but most have only handful of reviews (thus it’s not hard to achieve 100% or 0% approval if you have just a few employees rating).

    To be reasonable for this snapshot, we isolated those companies that have more than 50 CEO ratings. In total, it’s about 40 employers so far – so we still have a ways to go but we’re making progress.