Glassdoor has released its list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2012. Bain & Company ranks #1, taking the top spot from Facebook, which held the #1 slot for 2011. Bain's CEO Steve Ellis earned an impressive 96% approval rating from employees.
The top 5 places to work include: Bain & Company, McKinsey and Company, Facebook, MITRE and Google. Here's the entire list of the Best 50 Places to Work from Glassdoor.com.
As far as why employees love working for these companies are a few examples of recent employee comments at the top 3 companies on the 2012 list: Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, and Facebook.
- Bain & Company Senior Associate Consultant: "Amazing firm culture with smart, fun, passionate yet down-to-earth people. Amazing training where you get to meet peers from all over the world. Partners & managers who really care about you and your development."
- McKinsey & Company Employee: "Opportunity to work on exciting, high impact projects with teams of intelligent and interesting people while having a relatively high compensation."
- Facebook Applications Operations Engineer: "There are a lot of very smart people working at Facebook and this makes it a great place to work if you enjoy learning. There are regular presentations and tutorials from some of the best in the business. The work is challenging and once you have proved yourself there is also good opportunity to move to other positions and projects."
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Thanks so much – I’m moving to the US soon so this will help immensely in my job search!
Mary
Next time there’s a governmental census I would recommend to anyone that needs some extra cash, and has the time to take on a part time job, join the Census Bureau. It’s not the most entertaining job in the world, but you get paid well to do basic work.