Keeping employees happy is the key to success for any company. No one knows more about a workplace than its employees. Employee ideas reflect on fundamental measures, such as pay, perks, benefits, and hours worked. But they are also determined by factors such as a company’s culture and general mood.
Below are our pick of the top 5 tech companies to work for:
It is the people who make Google the company that it is today. They are motivated by the fact that their work has a positive impact on the lives of others. Google topped the list of ’50 Best Places to Work’ by Glassdoor. Since the inception of the list in 2007, Google has been steadily climbing the ranks and now is one of the top tech companies in the world.
Googleplex is Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The interiors are furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls. You can access facilities like free laundry rooms, two small swimming pools, volleyball courts and around 18 cafeterias with a broad range of menu from around the world. The building has a series of solar panels that feed power to the whole facility.
Every given perk in Google has calculated reasons that are designed to keep its employees happy and satisfied. The company has everything, from on-site doctors, hairdressers to cafeteria food. It also offers parental leave from 12 weeks to 22 weeks.
Plus, if in any case, an employee decides to leave, having Google on their resume never hurts. Click here to apply.
Facebook’s official headquarters is located in Menlo Park, California, and it employs an approximate number of 10,082 employees. The critical autonomy of Facebook is – We don’t have rules. Here, employees are their bosses in their space. Much of the designing on the wall are created by the Facebook employees themselves.
The company offers gourmet food courts, on-site doctors, laundry services and bikes to commute around the campus. New moms and dads are entitled to 4 months of parental leave with $4,000 in baby cash.
The idea behind the luxuries is to remove stress from the employee’s daily life so that they can concentrate on the company without having to worry about anything at all. Its emphasis on establishing a high-quality work environment makes it one of the best companies to work for.
Payscale? An experienced worker earns a median on $135,000 annually while interns earn around $6,000 to $7,000 per month. Click here to apply.
Adobe
Adobe was listed in the top ’50 Best Places to Work’ by Glassdoor in 2014. The company’s headquarter in downtown San Jose, California, is a huge skyscraper complex. The three towers, namely, West, East and Almaden, are known for their environmentally friendly designs that inflict minimum harm to the environment.
From the perk point of perspective, the company offers educational reimbursement up to $10,000 each year. Unlike most companies, employees here are entitled to Winter and Summer breaks. Employees are also entitled to a leave of 4 weeks after five years and five weeks after ten years. $360 are given for wellness activities like skydiving, surfing, kayaking, swimming, etc. Just like in college, employees have different fun clubs like soccer, photography, hiking, etc. Some of the other perks offered by Adobe are pet insurance, adoption assistance, backup child/adult care and financial wellness.
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Apple
Apple is considered one of the most challenging companies to work for. Given Apple’s high-end products, employees have to be on top of their game to meet the ever-increasing pressure. But, working with Apple has more pros than cons. Apple’s newest campus has an area of a behemoth 2.8 million square foot, which is it is a 176-acre site and houses over 13,000 Apple employees. Apple offers benefit to its employees like college tuition fees, gym membership, healthcare, discounts off selected products and services, and much more. Expecting mothers can take up to four weeks to 14 weeks of leave.
Employees praised the leadership of the company, Tim Cook notching up 94% approval rating. Click here to apply.
LinkedIn is a social media site where instead of making friends, you connect with people in your field of work. It is also one of the newest tech companies in the world. While most companies have inbuilt gyms where employees can work out, LinkedIn has free classes for Tai Chi, Zumba, InShape (a boot camp class), BOSU, TRX, Power Yoga and strength levels in the gym. Every month on a Friday, employees work on projects outside their daily grind. For instance in July, the theme was “LinkedIn for Good” where LinkedIn employees worked on 54 projects that got them interested in their communities.
Employees get $5,000 per year for professional education and get to pitch and run startup-like projects. They can grant up to $10,000 from the LinkedIn For Good Foundation to help their favorite charity or to start their own. Click here to apply.
