🥇 MAJOR TECH EMPLOYER POWER RANKINGS (SEATTLE ONLY, Q4 2017)

These rankings take into account: desirability, compensation, prestige, reputation, quality of life, exclusivity, company trajectory, social brand value, career growth opportunities, stock performance, location, office quality and a secret sauce of other factors. This analysis is focused specifically on the Seattle market and is normalized to that market, i.e. companies may rank higher/lower here than if we included SF/SV or other markets in the analysis. Companies outside of #10 are not ranked. Remember this is based on a composite of factors so a company’s ranking is not solely dictated by strong/weak performance in one or two areas etc.

Elite Tier:
1. Facebook (incl. Oculus)
2. Google

Top Tier:
3. Airbnb
4. Apple
5. Lyft

High Tier:
6. Amazon
7. Uber
8. Valve
9. Stripe
10. Snapchat
-Palantir
-Splunk
-Dropbox

Mid Tier:
-Hulu
-Microsoft (incl. LinkedIn)
-Tableau
-Alibaba
-Salesforce
-Pinterest
-Twitter
-Puppet

Low Tier:
-Expedia
-Oracle
-VMWare
-Qualtrics
-Nintendo
-HBO
-eBay
-Intel
-Adobe
-Socrata
-Redfin
-Porch
-Bungie
-IBM
-Zillow
-Sonos
-Remitly

Shit Tier:
-Cisco
-F5 Networks
-EMC
-HP/HPE
-EA (incl. PopCap)
-T-Mobile
-BrightCove
-Starbucks
-DocuSign
-GoDaddy
-Centurylink
-Groupon
-REI
-Slalom Consulting
-Accenture
-Concur
-Visa
-Nordstrom
-Niantic