Despite mass layoffs in the tech industry, many Silicon Valley giants dominate a new list of the best places to work in America, even if a few big names dropped off. Some 41 out of the top 100 large companies on career site Glassdoor’s list of “best places to work” were tech companies, up slightly from 40 in 2022. The next most represented industries were consulting and finance, which each had 7 companies on the list, followed by real estate, with 5 companies.
The names are drawn from the anonymous feedback of the employees who actually work at these companies. Workers fill out a review describing their job, the workplace environment and the company as an employer over the past year. Software company Gainsight ranked first (scoring 4.7 out of 5) for the best company to work for, followed by cloud-storage company Box (4.6), consulting company Bain & Company (4.6), McKinsey & Company (4.6), graphic-cards company Nvidia (4.6)
NVDA,
+0.58%,
mathematical computer-software company MathWorks (4.6), Boston Consulting Group (4.6) and Google parent Alphabet
GOOGL,
+3.51%
(4.6). The ranking was based on employees’ overall feedback during the past year. Workers volunteer feedback and rate their employers out of 5 on a variety of subjects, including how satisfied they are with their employer overall, their CEO, and other issues such as career opportunities, compensation and benefits, culture and values, diversity and inclusion, senior management and work-life balance. The average rating of companies on Glassdoor is 3.7. A few major players fell off the list in 2023, including Facebook parent Meta
META,
-0.08%,
which ranked 47th in 2022, Zillow
Z,
+3.65%,
which ranked 54th in January 2022 when the U.S. housing market had not yet shown any major signs of slowing down, and Apple
AAPL,
+2.11%,
which ranked 56th. A challenging economic environment may be one re …