Glassdoor Best Places to Work
Glassdoor just came out with its 2011 list of Best Places to work, based on reviews submitted by employees of the companies themselves. Facebook is #1, Southwest is #2 (?) and Bain & Co. is #3. Even though it seems like everyone on here is dying to make it to Wall Street, you might want to be careful what you wish for. Banks don't fare too well, with Goldman the highest at #17, MS at #37, and DB at #48. Consulting must rock, though, with MBB all in the top 20. I was surprised to see Apple so low at #20 and Google at #30, but maybe they're the BBs of the tech world. What do you guys think?
not surprising. larger companies, esp. with diversified operations, tend to be rated lower.
Case study
Bank ABC -has horrible ratings. -Employees think lowly of management. -Morale is low. - pays $150k to a 24 yr old
VS.
Tech Co. -great ratings - employees love each other - morale is high - pays $60k
8 out of 10 people will take the bank job. other 2 will regret it.
End of day, if I am making money, i dont give a fuck about employee rating shit. Toughen up.
can't compare a bank BB to an average tech co. top tech co's pay well over 100k. and they work half the hours. so your analysis is flawed.
Wow, SIG @ 10.
This is clearly rigged. Overstock.com is #9 while Google got shafted to #30.
lol @ Trader Joe's ranking marginally better than Goldman.
@DonCorleone:I decided to go work in corpdev for a tech firm rather than taking my offers at BB/prestigious boutique investment banks...
Here is my case personal case study (from when I was a first year analyst):
BB/Prestigious Firm: - Consistently work 80-100 hr / week - Pays $70k base + Bonus (let's assume it was really good @ $70K) = $140K to a 22 yr old - You work with assholes all day and everyone generally hates being there; they dump work on your last minute and treat you like shit. - You have little social life - Taking vacations, etc. is pretty tough - Exit Options: lateral to another bank, MBA, PE, HF, VC, CorpDev/CorpStrat, etc.
vs.
Tech Firm (Finance/CorpDev): - Consistently work 40-50 hr / week - Pays $75k base + Bonus $15K + Stock Options $15K = $105K to a 22 yr old - Morale is high; people are nice and enjoy working there; no one dumps work on you and every treats each other well. - You have lots of extra time to do whatever you want when you can leave the office everyday at 4-5pm. - Vacation and working remotely policy is lax...to the point that I took 20 vacation days + 10 paid holidays (usually landed as 3 day weekends) of vacation that year ...and then i went and worked from my family's beach house in the caribbean for 1.5 months. no one cared. - I did very similar work to the things my friends did at ibanks (learned the same kind of things, etc.) - Exit Options: lateral to another corpdev/corpstrat team, MBA, PE, VC, etc.
Not to mention that the city I work in is much cheaper (from both a COL and tax perspective) that the $35K different in pay doesn't matter...i can assure you I have a better lifestyle than any of my banking, PE, HF, etc. friends they make may a bit more $ but they don't enjoy it...I makes slightly less, live in a cheaper city, and live like a king compared to my banker friends in NYC and London.
You still think 8 people would choose option #1 and 2 would regret not choosing it?
You're living the dream.
that said, for a 22 yr old, you have done better than most 22 yr olds.
Damn that's a dream job for many. Option 2 hands down.
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Frankly, I'd be happy at working at any of the top 100 companies in the country. Being on that list is nothing to laugh at...
just to respond to a few of your points:
Look the point of my "case study" was just to prove, going with the general theme of this thread, that banks don't do well in these kind of rankings because the only real benefit they offer is money (and potentially open up some exit opps that may not be available to non-bankers). My point was also to prove that there are other paths you can take that offer a better lifestyle with great comp and, as much as bankers don't like to believe it as most try to justfiy their choice because of this reason, rather similar exit options.
I guess in the end it's just a lifestyle decision...I'm 24 now I work on average 40-50 hours a week making $95K base + $20K bonus + $30K in options, I have enough time to spend doing what I want and not just working all day, I can take time to go travel 1-2 a month for fun, I live in a cheaper city that affords gives me a better quaility of life, etc. All I know is that I'm happy while most of my banking & PE friends are not.
In all reality if i can get to a level of $1M+ total comp per year by the time my kids go to college (meaning ~ 20+ yrs down the line) I will be extremely satisfied. It's definitely not an unrealistic goal, at least at my current company, to achieve this...I think that it's actually quite feasible to reach this level by my mid-late 30s while still being able to enjoy my life.
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Glassdoor's best place to work for 2012 (Originally Posted: 12/20/2011)
http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm
Okay I'm quite late to the news but why the eff isn't BCG on the list. They're not even on the list! Why why?????? Thoughts?
Disclaimer: I am a complete bias since I just had interviews with them and got invited back for the final round. I was genuinely impressed by the people and enjoyed the cases tremendously. My firm intention is to work for them and I can't believe my dream company isn't on this list while the other two are >"
Calm the fuck down, it's Glassdoor not Jesus' favorite company list.
WERD! lol
You are a spaz. Who gives a fuck? Are you not going to work at BCG because Glassdoor doesn't have it on their circlejerk of a best places to work list?
LOL
Glassdoor is biased and this list takes in consideration; compensation, work/life balance, benefits and all.. If you get the job, congrats, prepare to get worked in the ground while someone from bain and mckinsey is getting paid more and prob taking a vacation day..
Who the fuck cares what glassdoor says?
Fag
+1
Glass door is completely useless for any purpose other than compensation comparisons
Actually some of the written employer reviews can be pretty informative.
Wao, do I really deserve all the monkey shit??? I was making a joke and clearly it doesn't come across that way :'(
Nevermind then!
Nut up or shut up pussy. You gotta learn to deal with these assholes on the WSO forums. But on a sidenote, the 4 current monkey shit's is pretty funny.
Well according to that list,
Trader Joe's > Goldman Sachs
lol
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"Wao, do I really deserve all the monkey shit??? I was making a joke and clearly it doesn't come across that way :'("
Also, you spelt "wow" as Wao...bigger fag
also, you spelled "spelled" wrong
@TonyPerkis: That's because I'm a girl dbag!
This just got hilarious
Yet women want to be treated equally...hmmm.....
Inb4 manhattan comes to save the day.
the fact that mcK is anywhere on this list tells me that it's useless
haha who even knew that Glassdoor made any sort of list? Thought it was just user generated content; no analysis and no actual stance by Glassdoor itself.
Pretty funny that Monsanto is on the list though, feel like I'd be cautious to even tell my family I work there let alone, happily work there.
pictures?
I heard tits.
(sigh) Speechless! I rest my case ಥ_ಥ
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spelt
lol indeed, but unfortunately this is not a british forum and using words spelled differently from common american english will just make you look silly...as examples, colour and favourite are technically words, but they're wrong in american english.
So it's just an American forum? Everyone who wasn't born, raised and works in the US can't post? Or if he/she does they have to rewrite it so it sounds american? Are expressions like y'all required? Sorry about the questions, I thought it was a global forum (people talking about London, Hong Kong probably misled me) and the only requirement was to write in ENGLISH. Thanks for the heads up though.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrong
Does. not. compute.
Not my problem where i currently live that is the word used...so suck my nuts brah
And "whaat" is def a bigger fag that OP
Quarterlife - 10SBs for a picture, of you. thanks
This thread is more and more like a cyber bully lol
lol
blackfin doesn't pull the race card here though -- he coo!!
8=======D
this thread is hilarious
QuarterLife - GlassDoor is excellent for company-by-company reviews and stuff, but rankings everywhere, including Vault are BS. Know what data to use and what not to - in fact, that's a skill set consulting teaches you well.
This post was hilarious.
Thank you for making the holidays brighter.
Regards
@All: I hope you realize the thread is a joke right at the beginning (much like when you watch a superficial show and it goes "bwhoohoohoo I don't get into top 5 Miss.Sunshine bwhoooohoooo". Obviously nobody took it that way and apparently I'm both a prestige whore AND a gender equality card player because someone called me a fag (twice) and I didn't like it.
Anyway, lesson learned! Hope all of you have a good laugh and Merry Xmas :D
@bbjhva: Thanks for being kind to me as always. Btw are you spending your holiday in Singpore? Visited the city last week and absolutelyyyy lovedddddddddd it. Hopefully I'll get the chance to work there :D
Quarterlife, how old are you? We can get together some time and listen to some rare Justin Bieber records I have. I also like Selena Gomez very much.
"@bbjhva: Thanks for being kind to me as always. Btw are you spending your holiday in Singpore? Visited the city last week and absolutelyyyy lovedddddddddd it. Hopefully I'll get the chance to work there :D"
I didnt know singapore was a city
It is
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