One of the nice things about having an anonymous employee review site is the PR gold you can tap into pretty much whenever you want. It’s particularly advantageous if CEO reviews and rankings are part of your offering. Surprisingly, Glassdoor has been the only resource for best (and worst) CEOs for the past decade based on worker sentiment.
Thankfully, there’s a new kid in town looking to put CEOs on notice by collecting employee feedback. Launched last year, Comparably has released its top CEOs of the year. Similarly to Glassdoor’s list, top execs are broken down between big companies and small- to mid-sized organizations.
Some notable CEOs within the employment space include LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner at No. 4, Indeed’s Hisayuki Idekoba at No. 7, Cornerstone OnDemand‘s Adam Miller right behind him, Workfront’s Alex Shootman at No. 17, Workday‘s Aneel Bhusri at No. 18, and Slack’s Stewart Butterfield at No. 20 rounding out the big companies. Workpop‘s co-CEOs Chris Ovitz and Reed Shaffner rank No. 7, Entelo’s Jon Bischke comes in at No. 34, and BambooHR‘s Ben Peterson is No. 36 in the SMB category.
Here’s the entire list of Comparably’s Top CEOs for 2017:
Best CEOs, large companies
- Marc Benioff, Salesforce, San Francisco
- Brian Halligan, HubSpot, Cambridge, Mass.
- Brad Smith, Intuit, Mountain View, Calif.
- Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn, Mountain View, Calif.
- Satya Nadella, Microsoft, Redmond, Wash.
- John Pope, Jive Communications, Orem, Utah
- Hisayuki Idekoba, Indeed, Austin, Texas
- Adam Miller, Cornerstone OnDemand, Santa Monica, Calif.
- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Spencer Rascoff, Zillow, Seattle
- Reed Hastings, Netflix, Los Gatos, Calif.
- Glenn Johnson, Insight Global, Atlanta
- Sundar Pichai, Google, Mountain View, Calif.
- Alex Shootman, Workfront, Lehi, Utah
- Tim Cook, Apple, Cupertino, Calif.
- Shantanu Narayen, Adobe, San Jose, Calif.
- Mark Clemens, Golden Hippo Media, Woodland Hills, Calif.
- Aneel Bhusri, Workday, Pleasanton, Calif.
- John Legere, T-Mobile, Bellevue, Wash.
- Richard D. Fairbank, Capital One, Mclean, Va.
- Stewart Butterfield, Slack, San Francisco
- Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight, Farmington, Utah
- Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, New York
- Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, Santa Clara, Calif.
- Jeff Bezos, Amazon, Seattle
- Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat, Raleigh, N.C.
- Alan Trefler, Pegasystems, Cambridge, Mass.
- Craig Jelinek, Costco, Issaquah, Wash.
- Mary T. Barra, General Motors, Detroit
- Lew Cirne, New Relic, San Francisco
- Willam McDermott, SAP, Newton Square, Penn.
- R. Milton Johnson, HCA Holdings, Nashville
- Julie Sweet, Accenture – North America, New York
- Pat Gelsinger, VMware, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Jack Dorsey, Square, San Francisco
- Mikkel Svane, Zendesk, San Francisco
- Gene Hall, Gartner, Stamford, Conn.
- Dan Rosensweig, Chegg, Santa Clara, Calif.
- Brian Chesky, Airbnb, San Francisco
- Kenneth Lamneck, Insight, Tempe, Ariz.
- Brad Jackson, Slalom Consulting, Seattle
- Omar Ishrak, Medtronic, Minneapolis
- Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg, New York
- Niraj Shah, Wayfair, Boston
- Brandon Beck, Riot Games, Los Angeles
- Logan Green, Lyft, San Francisco
- Robert Iger, Walt Disney, Burbank, Calif.
- Chuck Robbins, Cisco, San Jose, Calif.
- Edward Stack, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Coraopolis, Penn.
- Zander Lurie, SurveyMonkey, San Mateo, Calif.
Best CEOs, small- and mid-sized companies
- Sameer Dholakia, SendGrid, Denver
- Timo Rein, Pipedrive, New York
- Harry Glaser, Periscope Data, San Francisco
- Matthew Gonnering, Widen Enterprises, Madison, Wisc.
- Gavan Thorpe, Boostability, Lehi, Utah
- Howard Brown, RingDNA, San Francisco
- Chris Ovitz/Reed Shaffner, Workpop, Santa Monica, Calif.
- Giuseppe Incitti, SiteTraker, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Cyndi Barreda, NetCentrics, Herndon, Va.
- Kirk Simpson, Wave Financial, Toronto
- Matt Westgate, Lullabot, Providence, R.I.
- Yuri Sagalov, Redbooth, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Bob Ruffolo, IMPACT Branding & Design, Wallingford, Conn.
- Bob Pritchett, Faithlife, Bellingham, Wash.
- Alexander Austin, Branch Metrics, Palo Alto, CA
- Rob Vandenberg, Lingotek, Lehi, Utah
- Hadi Partovi, Code.org, Chandler, Ariz.
- Alan Rich, Chrome River, Los Angeles
- Nick Francis, Help Scout, Boston
- Marc Hawk, RevLocal, Granville, Ohio
- Christine Crane, BoldLeads, Chandler, Ariz.
- Cody Sperber, Clever Investor, Tempe, Ariz.
- Mark Leck, The REDX, Orem, Utah
- Daniel Vetras, Kollective Technology, Bend, Ore.
- Ariel Cohen, TripActions, Menlo Park, Calif.
- Brian Lacey, Mobomo, Vienna, Va.
- Sam Shank, HotelTonight, San Francisco
- Paul Brady, Unitrends, Burlington, Mass.
- Lisa Harp, Harp Interactive, Lombard, Ill.
- Marcus Cobb, Jammber, Chicago
- Dave Crumby, Realvolve, Raleigh, N.C.
- Kirill Evdakov, Fasten, Boston
- Tom Seery, RealSelf, Seattle, Wash.
- Jon Bischke, Entelo, San Francisco
- Lior Div, Cybereason, Boston
- Ben Peterson, BambooHR, Lindon, Utah
- Larry Gadea, Envoy, San Francisco
- Mikita Mikado, PandaDoc, San Francisco
- Charles Ramsey, Sauce Labs, San Francisco
- John Benson, Verisys, Alexandria, Va.
- Erick Joseph, Renaissance Electronic Services, Indianapolis
- Karl Mehta, EdCast, Mountain View, Calif.
- Brent Bellm, Bigcommerce, Austin, Texas
- Amrinder Arora, BizMerlin, Vienna, Va.
- Fred Maglione, OmegaFi, Columbus, Ga.
- Flint Lane, Billtrust, Trenton, N.J.
- Jeff Tench, New Signature, Washington, D.C.
- Ashwin Navin, Samba TV, San Francisco
- Sean Kelly, SnackNation, Los Angeles
- Vivek Mehra, ParqEx, Chicago
Did your CEO make the list? If not, don’t fret. Comparably is still a startup with a fraction of the data Glassdoor enjoys as the current incumbent. The two lists are quite different as well. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, interestingly, is the only CEO to make both Top Ten lists.
Comparably’s “Best of” lists are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on the site during the 2017 eligibility period (Jan. 1, 2017– Nov. 17, 2017). There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required.