Facebook the Best Place to Work, Followed by McKinsey & Company

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Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was the No. 1 company on the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2013. This is the fifth year that the organization has produced the research. Clearly, the value of the stock options in Facebook’s failed IPO did not charge the hearts of many of its workers.

Most of the companies just below Facebook on the list are not public. Two consulting firms, McKinsey & Company, and Bain, finished second and fourth. Boston Consulting group was No. 10. MD Andersen Cancer Center was N0. 5. Slipping into the No. 2 spot was Riverbed Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: RVBD), an unknown IT performance firm that has been badly beaten by investors recently.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) filled the No. 6 spot. Several unknown companies rounded out the top 10: Edelman, a PR firm, National Instruments Corp. (NASDAQ: NATI), a measurement and automation products company, and In-N-Out Burger. The chain has most of its locations in the U.S. Southwest. It has an absurdly small 281 outlets, most likely fewer that McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has in New York City.

Among the other companies in the top 50 are ones well-regarded for customer service, incidentally: Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM), JetBlue Airways Corp. (NASDAQ: JBLU), Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), and Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX).

The list also included a large number of tech giants and Web 2.0 firms: Linkedin Corp. (NYSE: LNKD), Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).

The only criticism some research purists might have of the research is sample size. Only 138 people reviewed Riverbed, and MD Andersen with 123 reviews.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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