The 10 best-led companies, according to Glassdoor

Business consultancy giant Bain & Co. came in at no. 1 on Glassdoor’s list. The Boston-based company has nearly 8,000 reviews on the job board site, and has consistently been ranked within the site’s four best places to work since 2009. Bain & Co. had 19,000 employees as of April.

In second place is Databricks, a generative AI-powered data intelligence platform founded in 2013. The San Francisco-headquartered company has more than 6,000 employees and is the highest-ranked of the 12 tech firms to land in Glassdoor’s top 50 best-led companies.

Rounding out the podium is Protiviti, a management consulting company specializing in IT consulting, risk & compliance, digital transformation, and internal audit services. The Menlo Park, California-headquartered firm has more than 11,000 consultants and operates in over 25 countries.

Nvidia, the Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor-making superpower whose highly sought-after chips are powering the AI boom, is the fourth best-led company, according to Glassdoor. (And the $2 trillion dollar company’s stock is also powering the Nasdaq.)

Employees have said CEO Jensen Huang is “Demanding. Perfectionist. Not easy to work for.” But Huang said that the words “perfectly” described him. “It should be like that,” he said in an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes. “If you want to do extraordinary things, it shouldn’t be easy.”

St. Petersburg, Florida-based Raymond James is no. 5 on Glassdoor’s best-led workplaces. The investment bank and financial services company, which has been around since 1962, provides wealth management, capital markets, asset management and other individually tailored financial services.

“Smiling faces. Priceless art. First names. Open doors. None of these things are necessarily synonymous with the financial services industry, but you’ll find them all at Raymond James,” reads the firm’s website.

Wealth management firm Equitable Advisors, based in Jersey City, New Jersey, came in sixth place in the rankings. During its investor day last May, the company revealed plans to double its wealth advisor headcount from 700 and increase advisor productivity by 4-5% over the next four years.

AMD, a Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor company, nabbed the no. 7 spot. At the end of 2023, the company had 26,000 employees — a 4% year-over-year increase.

Software company Samsara came in eighth on Glassdoor’s list. Overall, the San Francisco-based company has a rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars on the job board, based on over 1,015 reviews.

This popular fast-food chain is no. 9 on Glassdoor’s best-led companies list. The Irvine, California-based chain has 27,000 employees and 417 restaurants across the U.S., mainly concentrated on the West Coast.

San Francisco-based software company Autodesk rounds out the top 10. The company was featured in Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2022 list, ranked fifth on Corporate Knights’ 2023 index of most sustainable companies, and 21st in Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2022. It had 13,700 employees worldwide as of January 2023.