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Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US
An anonymous reader writes: Career website Glassdoor today released its eighth annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best companies to work for in the coming year. Airbnb was picked as the number one tech company to work for in 2016, displacing Google. Airbnb didn't even make the list last year. Google, meanwhile, placed sixth in 2013 and 2014, and first in 2015. As with Google last year, it's worth noting that Airbnb hasn't just taken the top tech company spot: It is the top company overall.
Airbnb was picked as the number one tech company to work for in 2016
It's not 2016 yet?
It's nice and all to have a company that's highly rated. It is even better to have a (non-staffing agency, non-MSP) company that gives citizens a favorable chance at long-term work.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Hipsters are hobos and companies like Airbnb are the certified proof that we are living through another Great Depression. But unlike the 30s, we have all been convinced to be happy enough about this to give out prizes to industrial leaders in the race to the absolute rock bottom. Cue the upcoming Airbnb integrated Tindr service with Vine monetisation, because why stop when you're on a downhill roll?
Not for transgenendered one-legged bearded leprechauns! Thats for DAMN sure!!
Crazy how a company that conspired with one of its competitors to rob its own employees of billions (that's with a b) in salary isn't at the top of the list...
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
How is airbnb or many of these other startups tech companies?
Sure they use technology, but so does the grocery store down the street. Should we start labeling grocery stores as tech companies that have websites? If your main product isn't technology and instead you use some inhouse custom built website/app to sell some other product or service then your company isn't a tech company but a company that uses tech to enable your business model.
Lyft/uber/airbnb/ aren't tech companies They are something else. I wish they would stop masquerading.
I tried to rent a place through Airbnb. The process went like so:
Me: I'm looking for a room for next tuesday.
Airbnb: What's your Facebook login?
Me: Do I look like an idiot?
Airbnb: How about your G+ account?
Me: I must look like an idiot.
So that was that. I haven't given them a second chance.
Glassdoor may not allow companies to remove/modify reviews, but they do scrutinize negative reviews more written against paying customers. I say this as someone who worked for an 'engaged employer' on glassdoor who had that pitched to him in very certain words by GD sales team.This is a laughable conclusion using their data.
They have an "app". This is just a complex piece of modern engineering that no one can understand how they work not even the people who create them. So complex that you can even earn certificates to learn how to make them.
To a journalist, "tech company" means two things. First, it's complicated and it would take too long to describe what it is to your grandma. Second, it's practically guaranteed(*) to make oodles of money any day now.
(*) Journalist is not responsible for monetary losses due to gullibility of the readers.
If Airbnb is a "tech company", then every company is a tech company now.
Google is slipping in its ranking. In fact, you'll notice that many of the highest ranked companies are fairly new and relatively small. And that's not unexpected. As a company gets bigger and older, the chances of hiring asshole managers increases greatly. Notice that Microsoft, who has been in business for nearly 40 years never makes these lists.
I do I.T. support for a company that's heavily involved with the hotel and travel industry, and just got back from the annual company meeting. One of the discussion topics given to a panel of experts there was the impact of AirBnB. The consensus was that it ranges from "not a concern at all" to "relatively helpful to business".
While admitting that the details depend a lot on which city you're talking about, there was definitely the opinion that in many good markets for the hotel industry, they have no problems achieving maximum (or near maximum) occupancy whenever corporate events come to town, or it's "tourist season" in the area. That's really what these guys live for. (It's not such a big deal if your big corporate hotel is relatively empty sometimes, if it rakes in big bucks for 3 months each summer, plus every 3-5 days or so in a row that some big convention is in town, and a few other key times of year like New Years' Eve or the Thanksgiving holiday.)
The smaller hotels/motels that are really worried about Johnny Q. Public who wants the cheapest room deal possible, and would happily go the AirBnB route to save a few more bucks are in a completely different category. In other words, AirBnB competes with the seedy family-owned motels more than the big corporate chains like Marriott.
Best company I worked for was Netflix. Google not so much, more like a hit or miss in what group/team/role you are and who your political allies are. I liked Google a lot the first year while the cool-aid was still fresh, then after tat I though Palm was a nicer place with more respectful managers.
What Google has for it is that they are very profitable and they used to have perks and food that were top notch but that degraded at scale, especially when they got over 10k employees.
Nice to have a break from all the Uber pumping.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'd rather work for systemd, they're on the up and up!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."