CareerBuilder, who recently laid off an estimated 10 to 15 percent of their staff in early December, has been named one of the best places to work by Glassdoor, a site that surveys employees about work conditions and encourages worker to leave feedback about their jobs.
Glassdoor surveyed over 11,000 companies operating in the United States before presenting their first annual Employees’ Choice Awards.
Coming in at number eighteen, CareerBuilder was the only job board represented on the ‘best workplaces’ list. Here is the list in its entirety:
1. General Mills
2. Bain & Company
3. Netflix
4. Adobe
5. Northwestern Mutual
6. Whole Foods
7. Google
8. SAP
9. Continental Airlines
10. NetApp
11. Intuit
12. McKinsey & Company
13. FactSet
14. Boston Consulting
15. Procter & Gamble
16. Caterpillar
17. Genentech
18. CareerBuilder
19. Apple
20. Juniper Networks
Ranking was determined by each company’s overall rating on Glassdoor, which is the cumulative average rating from employees who elected to participate in a 20-question survey that addresses key workplace factors, including work/life balance, career opportunities, communication, compensation and benefits, employee morale, recognition and feedback, senior leadership as well as fairness and respect.
Here is what some of the employees of CareerBuilder had to say about their company on Glassdoor:
“Great company to work for that has had some growing pains, but overall a stellar company.”
“CareerBuilder values and promotes people who are dedicated and committed to helping the company succeed.”
CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson has an 86 percent approval rating on the site with employees generally ’satisfied’ working under him.
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
How can you really believe Glasdoor’s ratings when they block any rating that is negative?
Why do they even have check boxes for negative ratings if they refuse them and then block your IP address from posting for a year?
I know the ratings would be much lower if all the employee’s ratings were counted.
I think the recent layoffs brought to light a lot of the problems that CB has that no one has openly talked about before.
I applaud the employees that broke the silence and I hope they continue to do so, transparency is the best policy for all companies.
December 31st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Well put, Colleen. Glassdoor wanted to manufacture news.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Who is Glassdoor? I find it hard to believe that Google and Genentech would rank so low on this survey. And CareerBuilder made the list? The survey must have been filled out prior to the lay off. Sorry guys, BusinessWeek is still the gold standard.
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:06 am
As a former employee of Careerbuilder I have never been treated so poorly and managed by children sitting behind desks and wearing suits!