TWITTER has been named as the best technology
company to work for, ousting Facebook from the top spot it occupied for three
consecutive years.The list of the top 50 companies in the world is
compiled from employee reviews on the jobs website Glassdoor.
One anonymous senior software engineer at Twitter’s
London office said: “Great people, like a family, that are passionate about
growing Twitter to help everyone. Very flat structure, all ideas seem valued
and interaction with senior management is easy and often.”
Other staff, such as a former data scientist at the
company in the US, highlighted the “great restaurant quality food with good
variety” that was available in the staff canteen.
A current intern in San Francisco highlighted the
free shuttle bus from the city to the office as a good perk and said that:
“interns are treated very much like full time employees, and are generally
given full-time calibre work”.
Not all of the reviews were positive, however. An
anonymous former employee said that the food was “great, if you want to gain 20
lbs”. He also criticised the goals of the company: “They don't care about the
employees and building a company. It's all about cashing out and hitting it
big. HR is almost nonexistent.”
Twitter claims on its website to offer weekly yoga
classes, free gym membership, medical and dental benefits, paid maternity and
paternity leave and a laundry and dry cleaning service.
The list ranked Twitter top and LinkedIn second.
Facebook, which was listed as the best technology employer in 2011, 2012 and
2013, only made it to the third spot.
Technology businesses also fared well in the overall
list of the best companies to work for in any sector. Twitter was at second
place, LinkedIn at third and Red Hat was at 23rd position. In total there were
22 technology companies in the top 50.
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