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Best Places To Work In IT 2010

Posted by kdawson on from the wish-you-were-here dept.

CWmike writes "These top-rated IT workplaces combine choice benefits with hot technologies and on-target training. Computerworld's 17th annual report highlights the employers firing on all cylinders. The Employer Scorecard ranks IT firms based on best benefits, retention, training, diversity, and career development. Also read what IT staffs have to say about job satisfaction. How's your workplace, IT folk?" Read below for a quick look at the top 10 IT workplaces according to this survey.
1. USAA; 2. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.; 3. JM Family Enterprises Inc.; 4. General Mills Inc.; 5. University of Pennsylvania; 6. SAS Institute Inc.; 7. Quicken Loans Inc.; 8. Verizon Wireless; 9. Securian Financial Group Inc.; 10. Salesforce.com Inc.

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  1. Bullshit criteria by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wow - the biggest criteria of them all - typical salary - isn't even on the list.

    I'd rather have a lot more bucks and crappy benefits than a bunch of 'great' benefits which I may never even use but also serve to tie employees to the employer and reduce upward career mobility.

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  2. Bad places to work by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I worked at a company that was in the top 50 on the Fortune 500. They were renowned for their tolerance and diversity. I was fired from that place for being gay. Don't believe everything you read, folks. The best places to work won't be found through survey questions; The best place to work, is a place you can respect and that respects you.

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    1. Re:Bad places to work by Aceticon · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I've been working as a freelancer in IT for large banks in London for a couple of years now and all of them have Charity programs.

      The common thing to all those programs is that employees are expected to donate their own personal time and/or money to make the company look good. I have yet to see one in which the company donated worker-hours to charity.

      It's all PR on the cheap: that's the way they work.

      Thus I'm not at all surprised when their "Diversity" programs tend to really be about projecting an image of "forward thinking and hip" to attract young (and easilly impressed) employees and pre-emptivelly avoid anti-discrimination laws and lawsuits, not about being inclusive.

  3. Re:Bullshit by Antony+T+Curtis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wouldn't say that their infrastructure IT staff are miserable.

    Overworked, maybe... Often frustrated... Over-ambitious but unable to effect change, frequently.
    Occasionally awakened by their pager, repeatedly, from 3am for the 4th night in a row.... Been there.
    But I wouldn't ever use the word miserable.

    (Former Google SRE)

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  4. What are those "best benefits"? by LordKronos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I read that the University of Pennsylvania has the best benefit, I said "oh really? like what?". So I went to look further. Does it say anything about typical salary? Nope. Vacation time? Nope. Retirement account (401a,403b) matching? Nope. Anything about how good their health insurance is? Nope. Do they offer free tuition for my family? It doesn't say. This article just says "best benefits" and then offers absolutely zero explanation of exactly why it got that ranking (other than mentioning free tuition for career related course, which is the norm for almost any college or university).