Naughtiest And Nicest C.E.O.'s Of 2008

New York Times:

Glassdoor.com, a site that lets employees anonymously review their employers and share salary information, is out with a list of the naughtiest and nicest chief executives of 2008, based on those reviews.

The nicest boss of all was Arthur D. Levinson, chief of Genentech, who got a 93 percent approval rating. He leads the Silicon Valley biotech company with a "decision-making structure that intrinsically forces authority downward to the lowest possible level providing many opportunities to exercise and test one's judgment," a strategic planner at Genentech wrote.

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Comments

[SangZe]

What does a CEO do anyway to merit getting more than 300% above the average worker's pay? Radix malorum est Cupiditas.

[aweissnet]

Oh, by the way, it only launched in June of 2008. The site is still a fledgling. I doubt they have a lot of data collected.

This is more like advertising for glassdoor.com, which needs users to come to their site and do things--provide data, etc.

I tried looking something up, and it prompted me to put information in.

[aweissnet]

Not sure what the usefulness of this site is, other than to make some us feel like misfits. I've got an education, I'm smart, resourceful (but I am a woman), and I've worked my tush off. Unfortunately a hiring freeze ended the possibility of a job in a contract assignment. I guess taking that time out for life, and children and husbands was just a really bad idea.

Glassdoor.com recent salary postings:

Deloitte Consultant $73,000
Cisco Systems Technical Leader $137,000
Deloitte Audit Manager $94,000
Yahoo! Product Manager $103,000
Accenture Consultant $74,000
Google Product Manager $121,000

[NotMcCain]

The big headline should be..."a company like Glassdoor.com needed--and got--$10 million of financing"???

[aweissnet]

Another blip on the internet hoping to strike it rich.

[AllenD]

I think David Singer, CEO of Lance, Inc. deserves a HUGE thumbs up for this:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/23/cookie.factory.reopens/index.html

[WasteNJ]

Looks like all of the best bosses are in tech. Also looks like a majority are in Cali. Hmmmm.

[aweissnet]

That's where the owners are located. They just don't have much info but the tech sector--the site is very young (and very useless).

[TheVicar]

Okay:

1. This is not a story particularly about Steve Jobs, so why is he listed as a category?

2. Tech companies are over-represented on this list. Could it be that a specialized website for ranking CEOs is more likely to be known about by tech employees?

3. For that matter, doesn't this just show which CEOs have been the most polarizing, not necessarily the nicest?