 "...People say that having a bunch of unhappy employees doesn't measure the value of company's technology. I completely disagree: Dysfunctional cultures mean high turnover and a lack of consistency in building and deploying products or services. As a boss of mine once said, "Scared chickens don't lay eggs."
Google, Mulesoft, Zoho, and Financial Force top the Glassdoor.com employee satisfaction list, with Financial Force in the No. 1 position. Guess what? They all have very strong and competitive cloud technology offerings.
Working down the list, Salesforce.com comes in with 76 percent of employees who would recommend working there to a friend. Amazon Web Services comes in at 66 percent, Oracle at 65 percent, IBM at 59 percent, Verizon at 52 percent, Hewlett-Packard at 47 percent, and Pivotal Software at 40 percent.
Making people happy is not that hard to do. The challenge is creating an innovative culture that drives productivity and value. I suspect that many cloud technology companies are moving so fast that the stress makes its way down to the worker bees, and as the survey shows, they are not responding positively.
When I first became an executive leader, these sorts of data points didn't mean much to me. However, I quickly learned that what the average employee thinks about the strategy, technology, pay, leadership, and the company culture means a great deal to the success or failure of a company or technology.
Today, I consider such markers when I select technology. You should too. Ask yourself: Is the product or service you're about to commit to coming from scared chickens or happy chickens?.."
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