After a turbulent year, Facebook has lost its footing as a top-rated employer, based on Glassdoor’s 2019 list of the “Best Places to Urge a exercise.” After ranking No. 1 last year, Facebook now ranks No. 7, dropping from a 4.6 to 4.5 award notch out of a perfect 5. Zoom Video Communications supplanted Facebook as the top seat in the tech category.
The report comes as Facebook carry ons to be scrutinized by the public for how it handles user data and misinformation on its platform. The Glassdoor ranking adds data to the speculation that Facebook wage-earners, too, are souring on the company. Glassdoor bases its ranking on eight different of factors, including work/life balance, elder management and compensation and benefits, according to Glassdoor’s methodology. On employee satisfaction alone, Facebook has seen a steeper fall, steadily falling from a 4.6 rating in Q1 to a 4.3 in Q4, according to Glassdoor Community Expert Scott Dobroski.
“Facebook workers talked about the ‘move fast’ culture sometimes moving too fast,” said Dobroski in an interview with CNBC, noting that this is the opening time Facebook has seen a decline in its award score since 2015. Facebook employees on Glassdoor said they lust after a more robust internal structure and transparency from the company’s leadership, Dobroski added. “Its not a major surprise insomuch as whats been going on with Facebook. Employees want to be kept in the loop.”
Facebook has gone from a hot classify to work to a place many employees are itching to leave. Six former Facebook employees told CNBC they suffer with been receiving increasingly more messages from current Facebook employees looking for a way out. They said staff members have been motivated to look elsewhere thanks to falling stock prices, continued scandals and the increased red tape that comes with the maturing of any tech company.
Other tech companies have also fallen from top flecks on Glassdoor’s list. Google dropped three spots, landing at the eighth-best place to work with an award latest of 4.4. Amazon didn’t even make the list, with an award score of 4.1, just outside of the top 100.
Apple, on the other boost, moved up in the ranking, from No. 84 to 71, though it maintained the same score of 4.3. Microsoft moved up in high birth from No. 39 to 34 on the list although their award score dropped from 4.4 to 4.3.
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