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Cloud computing has taken the IT industry by storm and given rise to a number of public companies. One big investor in the trend is Battery General partner Neeraj Agrawal.
Agrawal asked job-hunting site Glassdoor (a company he backed) to sift through its massive database of employee reviews and come up with the best cloud companies to work for, according to employees.
Glassdoor ranked this list based on each company’s overall rating.
It also included the CEO rating, and the “positive business outlook rating” which is the the percentage of employees that think the company’s business will improve in the next six months.
All of these are public companies with at least 30 company reviews on Glassdoor as of August 2, 2016. It turns out, the best cloud companies to work for include a lot of companies you may never have heard of.
No. 23: Intuit
Overall company rating: 3.9 stars out of 5
CEO: Brad Smith
CEO approval rating: 94%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 67%
Intuit offers online accounting and tax software.
No. 22: Mindbody
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- Mindbody CEO Rick Stollmeyer
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- Mindbody
Overall company rating: 3.9 stars out of 5
CEO: Rick Stollmeyer
CEO approval rating: 97%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 68%
Mindbody is online software for booking classes at fitness clubs.
No. 21: Box
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- Reuters
Overall company rating: 3.9 stars out of 5
CEO: Aaron Levie
CEO approval rating: 93%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 72%
Box offers online file storage and collaboration software.
No. 20: NetSuite
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Overall company rating: 3.9 stars out of 5
CEO: Zach Nelson
CEO approval rating: 87%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 73%
NetSuite offers financial software for small to mid-sized businesses. Oracle is in the process of trying to buy NetSuite, although, as we write this, that deal is in danger of falling through.
No. 19: Workiva
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- Workiva CEO Matthew Rizai
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- Workiva
Overall company rating: 4.0 stars out of 5
CEO: Matthew Rizai
CEO approval rating: 84%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 69%
Workiva offers online regulatory and compliance management software.
No. 18: Mimecast
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- Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer
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- Mimecast
Overall company rating: 4.0 stars out of 5
CEO: Peter Bauer
CEO approval rating: 94%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 64%
Mimecast offers cloud-based email scanning and security.
No. 17: CallidusCloud
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- CallidusCloud CEO Leslie Stretch
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- YouTube/CallidusCloudVideos
Overall company rating: 4.0 stars out of 5
CEO: Leslie Stretch
CEO approval rating: 89%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 81%
CallidusCloud offers cloud software for salespeople helping them generate quotes, track commissions and so on.
No. 16: LogMein
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- LogMein CEO Bill Wagner
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- LogMein
Overall company rating: 4.0 stars out of 5
CEO: Bill Wagner
CEO approval rating: 89%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 72%
Cloud remote access software that you login to your PC from anywhere and lets IT pros login to employees PCs to troubleshoot and fix.
No. 15: Splunk
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- Splunk CEO Doug Merritt
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- Splunk
Overall company rating: 4.1 stars out of 5
CEO: Doug Merritt
CEO approval rating: 83%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 78%
Splunk offers a big data device that can sift through the massive amounts of data that IT equipment produces to help a company run more efficiently.
No. 14: Adobe
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- Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen
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- Flickr / Fortune Live Media
Overall company rating: 4.1 stars out of 5
CEO: Shantanu Narayen
CEO approval rating: 94%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 81%
Adobe offers software graphic design, photo editing and marketing cloud software.
No. 13: Twilio
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Overall company rating: 4.1 stars out of 5
CEO: Jeff Lawson
CEO approval rating: 92%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 82%
Twilio is a cloud platform used by developers that lets them build text messaging and voice calls into their apps.
No. 12: Cornerstone OnDemand
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- Adam Miller, CEO, Cornerstone OnDemand
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- Cornerstone OnDemand
Overall company rating: 4.2 stars out of 5
CEO: Adam Miller
CEO approval rating: 94%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 78%
Cornerstone offers cloud HR software used for recruiting, training, and so on.
No. 11: Salesforce
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- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
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- Salesforce
Overall Company Rating: 4.2 stars out of 5
CEO: Marc Benioff
CEO approval rating: 97%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 85%
Salesforce is the big kahuna in cloud software, offering software for salespeople, marketing, customer support, app hosting, and so on.
No. 10: Xero
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- Xero CEO Rod Drury
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- Xero
Overall company rating: 4.2 stars out of 5
CEO: Rod Drury
CEO approval rating: 98%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 78%
Xero offers online accounting software.
No 9: Wix
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- Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami
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- Wix
Overall company rating: 4.3 stars out of 5
CEO: Avishai Abrahami
CEO approval rating: 94%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 77%
Wix offers website design and hosting.
No. 8: Shopify
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- Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke
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- Shopify
Overall company rating: 4.4 stars out of 5
CEO: Tobias Lütke
CEO approval rating: 95%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 84%
Shopify is a platform for creating ecommerce websites that allow businesses to sell their wares online.
No. 7: Five9
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- Five9 CEO Mike Burkland
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- Five9
Overall company rating: 4.4 stars out of 5
CEO: Mike Burkland
CEO approval rating: 90%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 87%
Five9 offer cloud-based software for contact centers.
No. 6: Paylocity
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- Paylocity CEO Steve Beauchamp
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- Paylocity
Overall company rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
CEO: Steve Beauchamp
CEO approval rating: 99%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 90%
Paylocity offers online payroll and HR software.
No. 5: Guidewire
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- Guidewire CEO Marcus Ryu
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- Guidewire
Overall company rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
CEO: Marcus Ryu
CEO approval rating: 96%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 91%
Guidewire offers cloud software for the insurance industry.
No. 4: Zendesk
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- Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane
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- Twitter/mikkelsvane
Overall company rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
CEO: Mikkel Svane
CEO approval rating: 96%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 92%.
Zendesk provides cloud customer support software.
No. 3 HubSpot
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- Matt Plays, HubSpot
Overall company rating: 4.6 stars out of 5
CEO: Brian Halligan
CEO approval rating: 95%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 88%
HubSpot offers email and online marketing software.
(It was also the subject of Dan Lyons’ tell-all book about the year he spent employed there: “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble”)
No. 2: Instructure
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- Instructure Josh Coates
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- Instructure
Overall company rating: 4.6 stars out of 5
CEO: Josh Coates
CEO approval rating: 98%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 92%
Instructure offers cloud software for school classrooms.
No. 1: Ultimate Software
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- Ultimate Software CEO Scott Scherr
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- Ultimate Software
Overall company rating: 4.6 stars out of 5
CEO: Scott Scherr
CEO approval rating: 99%
% of employees who think the business outlook is positive: 94%
Ultimate Software offers cloud-based payroll and HR software.