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These Are The Top-Rated Public Cloud Companies To Work For According To Glassdoor

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Which cloud companies have the happiest employees? By one reckoning, the leader is far from Silicon Valley. Just inland of Fort Lauderdale, you'll find Ultimate Software in Weston, Florida. The human resources company has the highest ratings on hiring and job review site Glassdoor of any public cloud company, ahead of the likes of Box, Salesforce and recently-public Twilio.

Glassdoor conducted its analysis at the guidance of one of its investors, Battery Ventures. The VC firm flagged every public cloud company with a market capitalization of $500 million or more and at least 30 reviews on the site. Partner Neeraj Agrawal says the group were surprised to see a company that was far from a household name lead the list in employee satisfaction. "It's a company where, if you're a software investor, you know this company," says Agrawal. "But it's not your typical Silicon Valley name."

Instructure, HubSpot, Zendesk and Guidewire rounded out Glassdoor's top five. Marc Benioff's Salesforce slotted in at #12, while Demandware, the commerce software company he acquired over the summer, finished at #7 (the criteria was to be public as of July 1). Other notable companies on the list include Twilio at #14, Adobe at #15, and Splunk at #16, NetSuite at #21 and Box at #22.

Glassdoor's rankings didn't consider companies such as Amazon and Microsoft as more complex than a software-driven, business-to-business cloud offering. Unlike with the private cloud list the companies made a few weeks ago, the 30 review cut-off didn't omit any usual suspects, Agrawal says.

As a group, the top public cloud companies received an average company rating of 4.2 stars out of 5 from their employees, compared to a 3.3 star average for all the site and 3.4 stars for tech as a whole. CEOs averaged a 94% approval rating, compared to 67%. As a group they employ more than 26,000 employees, with 13 of the 25 based in California and the next most just 3 in Boston. The median company in the group took 8 years to go public.

Companies with the highest ratings on Glassdoor were most likely to be marketing tech companies, with 5 appearing, compared to 4 in financial software and 3 each in vertical software, human resources and IT operations.

Glassdoor data isn't, of course, definitive in fully measuring a company's health. Ultimate Software, for example, has more than 500 reviews on the site. But self-reported reviews will always raise concerns that they skew towards the extremes of bitter detractors or employees seeing benefit in toeing the corporate line. Battery, for its part, worked with Mattermark data to compile its initial sample list; only two of the 25 companies on the list were members of the firm's portfolio.

One point for companies like Salesforce to track could be how their ratings change over time. Agrawal says that as companies scale, their satisfaction typically regresses toward the mean.

Battery is publishing its own blog post with the complete list and related insights.

The rankings themselves are here:

  1. Ultimate Software
  2. Instructure
  3. Hubspot
  4. Zendesk
  5. Guidewire
  6. Paylocity
  7. Demandware
  8. Five9
  9. Shopify
  10. Wix
  11. Xero
  12. Salesforce
  13. Cornerstone OnDemand
  14. Twilio
  15. Adobe
  16. Splunk
  17. LogMeIn
  18. CallidusCloud
  19. Mimecast
  20. Workiva
  21. NetSuite
  22. Box
  23. MindBody
  24. Intuit
  25. Varonis Systems
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