100 Best Companies To Work For

Misha writes "Fortune.com is publishing a list of 100 Best Companies to Work for. Quite a few tech companies, with a few semi-startups, like Xilinx, who 'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6 percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'"

Ironic

[dup_account]

Does this make today's Dilbert about the 5% bonus ironic?

semi-startup?

[Lxy]

ADOBE is a startup now? Yeah, sure, uh huh......

Microsoft is #20????

[EnlightenmentFan]

Woo hoo. Dance, monkey-boy, dance.

5. adobe systems

[Anonymous Coward]

5. Adobe Systems

After graduating from college (3 years ago), I sent my resume as a PDF to Adobe. They wrote back and asked for it in Word format because they didn't know how to read PDF files....

More or Less Useless

[limekiller4]

In the current economic climate, this is sort of like having a "100 Best Girls to Have Sex With" list. Yeah, Alyssa Milano might very well be on it but she's not hiring, so who cares?

Forgot one...

[JPhule]

I couldn't get through to the site, but I'm pretty sure they forgot the best one: The Government.

Re:hm

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd probably have better luck with that if programmers were just plain ionized.

Re:The Container Store is #2?

[CBackSlash]

well how about MBNA at #22?

it's a credit card company, and if you work for them, you are most likely a telemarketer or a manager of telemarketers.

is it possible to work for a great employer, and yet do one of the most despised occupations in america?

dentists everywhere breathed a collective sigh of relief when the predictive dialer was invented.

Re:The Container Store is #2?

[Tattva]

Oh yeah? Well you can take your cynicism and shove it ...

in an attractive, reasonably priced container pointed out by the courteous, friendly associate at your local Container Store.

Re:More or Less Useless

[Anonymous Coward]

Alyssa Milano might very well be on it but she's not hiring

I seriously doubt she has to hire anyone to have sex with her. ;)

What about the 100 Worse?

[Tablizer]

In this tech depression, a list of the 100 Worse may be more useful. They may be more forgiving of the fact that a resume only lists 30 buzzwords instead of the expected 50. (That is assuming they know of their ranking.)

#51 Harley Davidson

[Dr Caleb]

A friend of mine got a job there doing a little programming (over me :( ) and the first thing they did was take his order for his new bike (no it wasn't a V-Rod).

He was given a tour of the factory two weeks after he started, and picked it up while he was there.

I hear it the benefits really suck too :)

WHERE'S LINUX

[MrDog]

People say Linux is so great... why isn't it on the list? How can it get any better if people don't really like to work there?

Re:Hewlett Packard?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're fired.

Love, Carly

Have I been misinformed...

[EverDense]

or are "American Cast Iron Pipe" debt collectors?

Re:What about the 100 Worse?

[MojoMonkey]

Isn't that what http//www.fuckedcompany.com is for?

Re:Hewlett Packard?

[Tattva]

Perhaps they know of the curse of the DEC. Now that HP has absorbed Compaq they have also taken on the mantle of the owner of Digital Equipment's corpse, whose wretched santeria can fell the mightiest of companies.

Okay, just kidding. Anyway, as a former HP employee and current Agilent employee ... I think I'll just keep my mouth shut.

Re:Hewlett Packard?

[jazman_777]

When I started 4 years ago everyone I told said "Oooo... I heard thats a good place to work!". I agreed. But it has slid down ever since.

Oh oh. It's also coincident with _your_ start. Guess you're making a bigger difference than you ever imagined, eh?

Re:20% pay cut...

[Mantorp]

depends on what you consider essential as well, this time of year I NEED my Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale at $8+ per six pack

Re:The Container Store is #2?

[Andrewkov]

I hear they let employees borrow containers on the weekend, no wonder they did so well in the poll!

Pfizer

[mverrilli]

Who else here isn't surprised about Pfizer being on the list? :P Talk about job satisfaction...

Re:#51 Harley Davidson

[Anonymous Coward]

Harley Davidson is the Pontiac of the motorcycle business.

More like the Macintosh of the motorcycle business. Rabid fans, instant-tradition mystique, "if you have to ask you'll never know."

No, I guess I never will know why (when you factor in frequent breakdowns and insane repairs) people willingly pay what amount to taxicab rates to tool around on their over-loud fartmobiles.

Nor will I ever understand the appeal of guys using their crotches to absorb accelleration, braking and engine vibration right at the age when their prostates start acting up.

Re:Hewlett Packard?

[TechnoInfidel]

DEC is the One True Company, forged by the Dark Lord Olsen in the fires of Maynard.

All those who covet it for themselves are slowly consumed by it. Compaq no longer exists in its original form. HP is trying to wield it, but it wants to be found by its original master.

Re:5. adobe systems

[DrCode]

Good one.

I once applied to a Linux company, sent them an ASCII resume, and was told the same thing.

OTOH, Microsoft, I believe, asks for resume's in text format. Go figure.

Re:5. adobe systems

[panaceaa]

I work at Adobe too, though not as a manager. You have to admit that HR does a lot of stuff in Microsoft Word. You hardly ever get anything in PDF from them. When I was a new hire two years ago, I would get invited to new-hire orientation and other meet-me events, and everything was in Microsoft Word. Since I didn't have Office installed at the time, I'd happily ask them for a PDF version, but they'd hardly ever send one back.

Re:% Minorities? % Women?

[eggcozy]

I don't know about you, but the next place I am applying for is Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Granted, they are 78th, but 82% chicks man ... fosheeeezay!