10 best tech companies to work for that are not in Silicon Valley courtesy Business Insider 1.Orbitz: A sense of camaraderie * Employee rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars * Location: Chicago About the company: Orbitz is a travel-booking website that also owns other sites like CheapTickets and European-focused ebookers. Orbitz began life in the dotcom era as a collaboration by the airline industry. They wanted a piece of the online travel action from rising sites Expedia and Travelocity. Qualcomm: Skyrocketing success *Employee rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars *Location: San Diego About the company: Qualcomm is a semiconductor manufacturer most famous for its Snapdragon chips that power many of todays smartphones and tablets. The mobile revolution, and Qualcomms starring role in it, has fueled the 29-year-old company to massive growth in recent years. It reported $25 billion in 2013 revenues, up 30% from 2012. Co-founder Irwin Jacobs is a billionaire involved in politics. He just hosted President Obama at his home for a $10,000-a-plate lunch fundraiser. CDW: Wonderful work/life balance *Employee rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars *Location: Vernon Hills, Illinois (Chicago area) About the company: CDW is a $10 billion company that sells just about every kind of piece of computer equipment and software under the sun. Its founder story is a bit similar to Dells. In 1982, a 28-year-old, out-of-work college graduate named Michael Krasny needed cash and placed a $3 classified ad in the newspaper to sell his IBM computer. Offers poured in, he made $200 profit, and Krasny became a computer broker, buying and selling computers for a small profit. The company was born. MathWorks: Cool product, great training *Employee rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars *Location: Natick, Massachusetts (Boston area) About the company: MathWorks makes math software for computer engineering. Its tools help developers create algorithms or analyze data. MathWorks is famous for a contest it runs each year for the best uses of its software. Last year, an Australian doctorate student won for creating a drone. Citrix Systems: Good pay, smart coworkers * Employee rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars * Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida About the company: Citrix offers a form of networking software to companies that allows them to run Windows (and other apps) over the Cloud, instead of installing it on PCs. It offers other tech management software, too, for doing things like security and managing mobile devices. It is VMwares biggest competitor. 6.National Instruments: A great place to grow * Employee rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars * Location: Austin, Texas About the company: National Instruments was founded in 1976 and is famous for its test equipment that helps engineers build everything from spaceships to tiny wireless devices. It recently announced a partnership with toy maker Lego where NIs software will be used for building Lego robots. The project aims to excite students about science and technology. CareerBuilder: Management really cares * Employee rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars * Location: Chicago About the company: About 24 million people use the CareerBuilder website each month to find new jobs and glean career advice. It was originally launched as a dotcom-era website and went public one-year before the internet bubble burst. It barely hung on through the post bubble years, bought by newspaper companies Gannett Co and the Tribune Company and The McClatchy Company (which owns Knight Ridder). 8.Texas Instruments: Great co-workers * Employee rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars * Location: Dallas About the company: TI is a a $12 billion semi-conductor company that consistently lands on the best places to work lists. In 2011, it bought its oldest, biggest rival, National Semiconductor. Today its chips are embedded in countless electronics devices. It is even powering a Kickstarter project that launched a bunch of tiny spacecrafts into orbit with the last the SpaceX mission, the first so-called personal spacecrafts. 9.Microsoft: Great for talented, ambitious people * Employee rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars * Location: Redmond, Washington (Seattle area) About the company: Microsoft just appointed its third-ever CEO, long-time Microsoftie Satya Nadella. The company is already flourishing under his new leadership as he moves Microsoft into the brave new era of cloud computing and making its own devices with its acquisition of Nokia. 10. Rackspace: Be treated like family * Employee rating: 3.6 stars out of 5 * Location: Windcrest, Texas (San Antonio area) About the company: Web hosting and cloud computing infrastructure. Rackspace is going through some challenging times right now, as it faces increased competition from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, HP, and others. The companys well-liked CEO Lanham Napier surprised the tech world by suddenly resigning in February, when the company announced softer-than-expected growth in its cloud business. Founder and chairman Graham Weston stepped back in as temporary CEO.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 07:36:41 +0000
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