2011 Best Places to Work - Employees' Choice Awards (glassdoor.com)

These lists always bother me because the one characteristic the companies listed always seem to share is: "It's a big corporation with thousands of employees". Precisely the one characteristic that immediately takes it off my list of "great place to work."

If your company didn't make the top 50 but it is reasonably large, you can probably find it here: http://www.glassdoor.com/site-directory/company-reviews.htm Scroll down to the Alphabetical Listings "@Roa - Acad Acad - Adva" etc. if your company isn't on the main list. I found that the reviews have many insightful comments, with separate sections on "Pros", "Cons", and "My Advice To Senior Management".

I found that many of the reviews on glassdoor.com were seriously misguided or contained factual flaws. Not that I work at any of these places.

What is funny is the Google is ranked below Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and SIG is ranked very high.

Google clearly have the best benefits out of those companies. But I guess compensation and employee satisfaction might be highly correlated.