The 15 Best Places To Work In America: GlassDoor.com (PHOTOS)

The employees have spoken.

The best places to work in America include Facebook, Southwest Airlines and the PR giant Edelman, according to the 3rd annual version of career website GlassDoor.com's "Employees' Choice Awards" list. The rankings are based on responses 20-question survey administered by GlassDoor and cover categories like career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, employee morale and work/life balance.

One Palo Alto, California-based employee of a very prominent web company (we'll let you guess which company) had this to say about their employer: "The energy and direction of the company! There's plenty of opportunity to take on new responsibilities and build the future of [this company]."

Which companies were voted by employees as the best places to work? Check out the top 15 below and visit GlassDoor for more information:

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#15 NetApp

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[my9kl]

02:12 PM on 12/27/2010

Many of the reviews are written by HR employees praising their companies. I know this because my employer has done this and my colleagues have told me that their companies do it as well.

Glassdoor rejects legitimate reviews when companies intimidate them enough. mVerify was able to legally strong-arm them into rejecting a good review.

When Glassdoor shuts down, then the buyer can do anything with the reviews data. Glassdoor knows your IP address when you leave reviews. Glassdoor is getting employers to sponsor their pages. They will sell you out in a heartbeat if the employers demand identities.

[ciarequital]

09:37 PM on 12/21/2010

OVERSTOCK.COM - Are you kidding me? Chaos.

[StephenJK]

08:51 AM on 12/19/2010

This is the companies own employees rating the company they work for? I suppose these were "anonymous" surveys? Pfft. I know a thing or two about "anonymous" surveys. Namely, they're not anonymous. Take this info with a grain of salt.

[jonester]

02:17 AM on 12/18/2010

I am shocked BCG and Bain made the list, the people I know from there work sometimes 60-80 hours a week.

[Jimmy Boy]

09:37 PM on 12/17/2010

These places are great, until Goldman Sachs buys them out and demands that they raise profits from 20% to 38% or else......

[mcmutter]

05:48 AM on 12/17/2010

IBM ?

AT&T ?

GM ?

Exxon ?

the world sure has changed ......

[MikeyJaii]

12:14 AM on 12/17/2010

The best place to work in America is at home collecting your welfare checks from the Gov't.

[cheeeeeeese]

01:02 AM on 12/17/2010

i loves my welfare

[LisaO8]

08:53 AM on 12/17/2010

yeah, the poor sure are getting rich on those!

[StephenJK]

08:43 AM on 12/19/2010

Yeah! Next thing you know they'll be buying Google and other countries...

[morristhewise]

09:26 PM on 12/16/2010

Employers can find information on a potential employee in less than five minutes. Credit, marital status, past employment, arrests, and recent history is available for only 50 bucks. Phone calls to friends and neighbors can be done for less than 250. If your past is less than acceptable, the only jobs available are with illegal immigrants.

[lovbug]

07:34 PM on 12/16/2010

Can these people give the 99ers some jobs? that's the question here.

[maxfax]

06:24 PM on 12/16/2010

McDonald's?  What else is there?

[MadAsHellLiberal]

06:19 PM on 12/16/2010

Me personally, I would be willing to work for Overstock. Just think of all the employee discounts!!

[Hammond Egger]

05:07 PM on 12/16/2010

It's just one survey. If you take ten different surveys, you'll get a different top fifteen on every one.

[Clarabell]

05:02 PM on 12/16/2010

Honestly, I'm so so happy that I don't need a job. I went back to work in the mid 1980s, after my kids were getting old enough, and I saw a big change in the work place since the 70s and how unfriendly it was. (I worked in law offices.) That was also when the department stores started their "downsizing." That was the beginning of the end of this country as we knew it. I had several relatives working in department stores and it became obvious that most clerks knew nothing about the products that they were selling. What a shame.

[maxfax]

06:30 PM on 12/16/2010

With the exception of Nordstrom's and stores on the high end, retail department store employees know very little to nothing about the products they sell, pay is not very good either these days.

[Clarabell]

07:13 PM on 12/16/2010

and, you're really lucky if you can find someone to answer a question or ring up your purchase.

[Random User]

04:58 PM on 12/16/2010

How old is that QuickTrip photo? Gas was $1.85 a gallon! Or is a Canadian picture and the unit is a liter?

[Mondayboy]

11:29 PM on 12/17/2010

very observant - i didn't notice.

[KOisGod]

04:56 PM on 12/16/2010

What? No Wallymart?

[maxfax]

08:21 PM on 12/16/2010

We know how magnanimous they are toward their employees.