Facebook Rated 'Best Place To Work': Glassdoor.com

Facebook has been named the "Best Place to Work" by employees on Glassdoor.com, a business and career-oriented network.

According to the results of the 2010 Employees' Choice Awards contest, Facebook received a score of 4.6 out of 5 possible points. Employees said they were "very satisfied" working at Facebook, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg earned a 96% approval rating. (Recently, Zuckerberg was named Time's "Person Of The Year.")

"Of all the strategies for making workers happy, turning them into millionaires is probably the most effective," writes the New York Times. "Many of Facebook's employees have been able to sell some of their shares to big investors or on exchanges where shares in private companies trade."

Naturally, there are drawbacks to working for the world's largest social network, according to a Glassdoor user claiming to be a Facebook operations engineer. "With the small number of employees, everyone is expected to change the world," the employee wrote on Glassdoor.com.

Glassdoor's yearly contest includes companies with a staff of 500 or more. Apple, Inc. scored the #20 spot among the 50 highest-rated companies, and CEO Steve Jobs received approval from 97% of employees. Google took the #30 spot, with CEO Eric Schmidt winning the hearts of 96% of employees.

Take a look at the complete list of top-rated companies on Glassdoor.com (PDF).

Comments

[Jeffrey Garza Falcon]

03:58 PM on 12/16/2010

This is total hype. There ain't nothing special about the place. Trust me.

[Remember Remember]

02:42 PM on 12/16/2010

"Many of Facebook's employees have been able to sell some of their shares to big investors or on exchanges where shares in private companies trade."

So, how isn't that 'insider trading' exactly?

[whirlpool]

03:26 PM on 12/16/2010

It isn't a public company and is not traded on the public markets. It is private stock.

[politisophical]

10:11 PM on 12/15/2010

jesus.. WTH does google have to do to stay #1...

[Maddie Maderson]

04:11 PM on 12/15/2010

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[Bike Commuter]

02:55 PM on 12/15/2010

I am guessing the results were skewed due to non-employees responding because they consider tending their crops in Farmville to be "work".

[curiousasheck]

02:34 PM on 12/15/2010

Okay so no one would want to work for Facebook unless they we're promised to be made millionaires?

[Max Shaw]

02:30 PM on 12/15/2010

I wish I could work for one of these big media companies. Looks like a ton of fun!

[curiousasheck]

03:12 PM on 12/15/2010

It is if you need a parental figure to babysit you and a job that doesn't interfere with your social life.

[Marcospinelli]

01:06 PM on 12/15/2010

"Facebook, Best Employer?"

Certainly better than Barack Obama's military.

Glenn Greenwald gives us a peek into how Obama's 2012 campaign slogan might as well be "Change Washington, the Bush-Cheney policies, & way of doing things?  We don't need no stinkin' changes!":

Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to W!k!Leaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime.  Despite that, he's been detained at the US Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months (& two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait) under conditions that constitute cruel & inhumane treatment &, by the standards of many nations, even torture. 

Interviews with people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, including Quantico brig official Lt. BrianVilliard who confirmed much of what others conveyed, establishes that Manning is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.

Since his arrest in May, Manning's been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems.  He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "MaximumCustodyDetainee," the highest & most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.

From the beginning of his detention, Manning's been held in intensive solitary confinement.  For 23 hours every day -- for seven straight months & counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell.  Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising & is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions.  He's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he isn't & never has been on suicide watch).  For the one hour per day when he's freed from this isolation, he's barred from accessing any news or current events programs.  Lt. Villiard protested that the conditions aren't "like jail movies where someone gets thrown into the hole," but confirmed that he's in solitary confinement, entirely alone in his cell except for the one hour per day he's taken out.

In sum, Manning has been subjected for many months without pause to inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions of isolation similar to those perfected at America's Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado:  all without so much as having been convicted of anything.  And as is true of many prisoners subjected to warped treatment of this sort, the brig's medical personnel now administer regular doses of anti-depressants to Manning to prevent his brain from snapping from the effects of this isolation.

[Max Shaw]

02:29 PM on 12/15/2010

This is highly unrelated. Perhaps a military article would be a better fit for you post.

[StansDad]

03:19 PM on 12/15/2010

it's very related, observe

Facebook

now watch

when I remove all of the letters and replace them with

MILITARY

[Marcospinelli]

04:44 PM on 12/15/2010

Let's thank our lucky stars you're not the boss of me or HP or the first amendment.