Top 50 Work Places
By Asha

Arguably, the most popular employee review site Glassdoor has published its best companies to work for in 2012.  The fourth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, listing the top 50 “Best Places to Work,” is based on surveys collected from U.S.-based employees in 2011. The top five Best Places to Work, according to employees, are: Bain & Company, McKinsey & Company, Facebook, MITRE, and Google.

Management consulting firm Bain & Company has been on the Glassdoor list since 2009 and leads the pack in 2012 with a 4.7 overall company rating, based on a five-point scale, edging up from the number three spot in 2011. CEO Steve Ellis earned a 96% approval rating from his employees although this dipped from 99% last year.

McKinsey & Company, another large management consulting firm, took the number two spot this year with a 4.3 company rating (up from #18 on the list in 2011), and CEO Dominic Barton has a 100% approval rating, up from 93% a year ago. Facebook, which ranked #1 last year, moved down to number three with a 4.3 company rating from a 4.6, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg slipped to an 89% approval rating from 96% approval last year.

Rounding out the top five companies to work for are MITRE with a 4.1 company rating (CEO Alfred Grasso has a 92% approval rating) and Google with a 4.0 company rating, which moved up from #30 and a 3.7 rating last year. Current CEO Larry Page garners a 92% approval rating, compared to former CEO Eric Schmidt’s 96% approval last year.

Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards rely solely on the input of employees.