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, andDBat #48. Consulting must rock, though, withMBBall in the top 20. I was surprised to see Apple so low at #20 and Google at #30, but maybe they're theBBs技术界。你们有什么感想?

http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_…

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12y
Don Corleone, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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.

12y
醉汉, what's your opinion? Comment below:
Don Corleone:
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 bankBBto an average tech co. top tech co's pay well over 100k. and they work half the hours. so your analysis is flawed.

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12y
双赢, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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.

I win here, I win there...
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12y
harvardgrad08, what's your opinion? Comment below:

@doncorleone:我决定去科普尔德的科技公司工作,而不是在BB/prestigious boutique投资银行...

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 inNYC和伦敦。

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12y
rainman89, what's your opinion? Comment below:
harvardgrad08:
@doncorleone:我决定去科普尔德的科技公司工作,而不是在BB/prestigious boutique投资银行...

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 inNYC和伦敦。

您仍然认为8个人会选择选项#1和2会后悔不选择它吗?

你实现梦想。

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12y
Don Corleone, what's your opinion? Comment below:
harvardgrad08:
@doncorleone:我决定去科普尔德的科技公司工作,而不是在BB/prestigious boutique投资银行...

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 inNYC和伦敦。

您仍然认为8个人会选择选项#1和2会后悔不选择它吗?

  1. to get ur tiny 15k bonus, u need to throw in more hours. Bend over backwards and prove yourself worthy, show others that you put in extra work, you deserve the extra $
  2. stock options are just stock options. If it aint cash, it doesnt matter. So realistically, its 75+15k + another 20 hrs/week minus stock options. 90k / 70hrs
  3. analyst at tech corp. dev. its fucking corp dev ! - they laugh @ corp dev monkeys. comparing corp. dev analyst toBBanalyst is like comparing NBA rookie point guard to a YMCA pick up PG. Sure, you're a point guard, but its fucking YMCA
  4. finally, 5-6 yrs from now, ur buddies @PEwill be reviewing your resume sitting on other side of table when you'd go there asking for a better "buy side" job.

也就是说,对于22岁的年龄,您的表现要比大多数22岁的老人更好。

2y
Cubuffwg, what's your opinion? Comment below:

该死的是许多人的梦想工作。选项2下方。

Greed is Good!
12y
2x2Matrix, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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这些灯之一比其他灯稍亮,将是我的机翼尖端经过。
12y
D M, what's your opinion? Comment below:

坦率地说,我很乐意在任何的工作100 companies in the country. Being on that list is nothing to laugh at...

"You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." -IlliniProgrammer "Your grammar made me wish I'd been aborted." -happypantsmcgee
12y
harvardgrad08, what's your opinion? Comment below:

just to respond to a few of your points:

  1. I wouldn't say that's necessarily true...the example was more of a real life case study of my first year. I pretty consistently worked 40-50 hr / week and got that kind of bonus - no bending over backwards, etc., etc.
  2. 这绝对不是现金。这些选择通常在5年内每年落后20%,因此您的福利被推迟了。一旦您在公司工作了5年,实际上是在此COMP组件不错的时候,因为如果您获得了15k + 25k + 45k + 45k + 55k + 70k,则在5年内获得了期权,那么第5年就开始实质上影响您的总补偿 - 因为那一年,您将考虑获得4万美元以上的既得选择。
  3. I'm not sure the comparison makes sense since most of the people on corpdev teams are former bankers. It's not like NBA players leave and go play YMCA basketball. At my company most come fromGS,MS,Evercore,Moelis, etc. In all reality the work/skills in coprdev are just an extension of what you did in banking - albeit more narrow from an industry and also from the type of products (i.e. you really only work on M&A and divestitures...no IPO,LBO,CAP升高等。类型工作 - 我猜这些可能在较小的公司中可能是可能的,但我在这里集中在F50 Corpdev)。
  4. They may be...but I would say that the vast majority of corpdev folks have little interest inPE. Most actually want to stay in a corporate environment and eventually become business leaders there or make a move intoVC——在工业/ corpdev /操作/ strategy experience is quite valuable. That said, a few friends of mine in corpdev have been able to make the jump to mega-funds (TPG,KKR,Carlyle等等。buy sidejob they were still able to land these opportunities.

看看我的“案例研究”的重点只是证明,以此话题的一般主题,银行在这类排名中的表现不佳,因为他们提供的唯一真正的好处是金钱(并且有可能打开一些出口OPP可能无法提供给非银行者)。我的观点也是要证明您可以采取其他途径,可以提供更好的生活方式,而且,尽管银行家不喜欢相信它,因为大多数人都因为这个原因而试图公正他们的选择,而是相似的退出选项。

12y
harvardgrad08, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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 &PEfriends 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.

12y
2x2Matrix, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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这些灯之一比其他灯稍亮,将是我的机翼尖端经过。
12y
薄片, what's your opinion? Comment below:

平静下来,这是玻璃门,而不是耶稣最喜欢的公司名单。

Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into SWANSONS.
12y
donkeyBusiness730, what's your opinion? Comment below:
薄片:
平静下来,这是玻璃门,而不是耶稣最喜欢的公司名单。

WERD! lol

Wally!
12y
Happypantmcgee, what's your opinion? Comment below:

You are a spaz. Who gives a fuck? Are you not going to work atBCG because Glassdoor他们的最佳工作清单中的Circlejerk没有它吗?

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
12y
金库, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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 whilesomeone from bainandmckinsey is gettingpaid more and prob taking a vacation day..

12y
UFOinsider, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Who the fuck cares what glassdoor says?

忙着生活
12y
Tonyperkis, what's your opinion? Comment below:

fag

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12y
accountingbyday, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Glass door is completely useless for any purpose other than compensation comparisons

twitter: @CorpFin_Guy
12y
四分之一生, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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!

My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil - JP Getty
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12y
Happypantmcgee, what's your opinion? Comment below:
四分之一生:
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!

通常,笑话很有趣。
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
12y
porsche959, what's your opinion? Comment below:
四分之一生:
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!

螺母或关闭猫。您必须学会处理这些混蛋WSO论坛。但是在旁注上,当前的4个猴子狗屎很有趣。

12y
Tonyperkis, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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12y
Tonyperkis, what's your opinion? Comment below:

"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

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12y
whaat, what's your opinion? Comment below:
Tonyperkis:
Also, you spelt "wow" as Wao...bigger fag

另外,您拼写“拼写”错误

12y
四分之一生, what's your opinion? Comment below:

@TonyPerkis: That's because I'm a girl dbag!

My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil - JP Getty
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12y
UFOinsider, what's your opinion? Comment below:

This just got hilarious

忙着生活
12y
bfin, what's your opinion? Comment below:
四分之一生:
@TonyPerkis: That's because I'm a girl dbag!

然而,女人希望得到平等的对待...嗯.....

Inb4 manhattan comes to save the day.

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee

WSO is not your personal search function.

12y
ivoteforthatguy, what's your opinion? Comment below:

the fact that mcK is anywhere on this list tells me that it's useless

12y
薄片, what's your opinion? Comment below:

I heard tits.

Under my tutelage, you will grow from boys to men. From men into gladiators. And from gladiators into SWANSONS.
12y
四分之一生, what's your opinion? Comment below:

(sigh) Speechless! I rest my case ಥ_ಥ

My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil - JP Getty
12y
whaat, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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.

12y
Maximus Decimus Meridius, what's your opinion? Comment below:
whaat:
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.

12y
jaschen27, what's your opinion? Comment below:
whaat:
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.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrong

Does. not. compute.

12y
Tonyperkis, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Not my problem where i currently live that is the word used...so suck my nuts brah

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12y
Tonyperkis, what's your opinion? Comment below:

And "whaat" is def a bigger fag that OP

我吃早餐的成功...脱脂牛奶
12y
Ches, what's your opinion? Comment below:

季度生活 - 图片的10SB,您。谢谢

12y
Bombit, what's your opinion? Comment below:
Ches:
季度生活 - 图片的10SB,您。谢谢

This thread is more and more like a cyber bully lol

12y
ivoteforthatguy, what's your opinion? Comment below:

lol

blackfin doesn't pull the race card here though -- he coo!!

12y
UFOinsider, what's your opinion? Comment below:
ivoteforthatguy:
lol

blackfin doesn't pull the race card here though -- he coo!!

trUE, that was ignorant of me, but really don't see how OP did anything questionable...
忙着生活
12y
bbjhva, what's your opinion? Comment below:

this thread is hilarious

QuarterLife - GlassDoor is excellent for company-by-company reviews and stuff, but rankings everywhere, including Vault areBS. Know what data to use and what not to - in fact, that's a skill set consulting teaches you well.

12y
bonono, what's your opinion? Comment below:

这篇文章很有趣。

感谢您使假期更明亮。

Regards

12y
四分之一生, what's your opinion? Comment below:

@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.

无论如何,教训!希望你们所有人都能笑出来,圣诞快乐: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

My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil - JP Getty
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12y
N.R.G., what's your opinion? Comment below:

四分之一生, 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.

12y
Tonyperkis, what's your opinion? Comment below:

"@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"

我不知道新加坡是一个城市

我吃早餐的成功...脱脂牛奶
12y
Engineer002, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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ivoteforthatguy, what's your opinion? Comment below:

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