WA Companies That Have The Best Outlook For 2019

SEATTLE, WA - Several Washington-based companies were recognized as having the best outlook for 2019, according to an annual rating from Comparably released this week.

Comparably, a workplace culture and compensation monitoring website, ranked 50 large and 50 small or mid-sized companies for outlook.

The website says the rankings are compiled using anonymous employee ratings for outlook and employee net-promoter score. Outlook measures how an employee feels about the company’s future while the net-promoter score measures how likely an employee is to recommend the company to a friend, the website explains.

In Washington, here are the large companies that made Comparably’s list:

• Costco - Seattle (ranked 7th nationwide)
• T-Mobile - Bellevue (9th)
• Microsoft - Redmond (12th)
• Amazon - Seattle (32nd)
• Starbucks - Seattle (45th)

And these are the small and mid-sized companies that made Comparably’s list:

• Highspot - Seattle (1st)
• Shyft Technologies - Seattle (31st)
• Hiya - Seattle (45th)

Below are the top 10 large companies on Comparably’s list:

1. HubSpot (Cambridge, MA)
2. UiPatch (New York, NY)
3. Workfront (Lehi, UT)
4. Insight Global (Atlanta, GA)
5. Globant (San Francisco, CA)
6. Salesforce (San Francisco, CA)
7. Costco (Seattle, WA)
   
8. Dynatrace (Waltham, MA)
9. T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA)
10. Google (Mountain View, CA)

Below are the top 10 small and mid-sized companies on Comparably’s list:

1. Highspot (Seattle, WA)
2. Sendgrid (Denver, CO)
3. Drift (Boston, MA)
4. Phenom People (Ambler, PA)
5. Trip Actions (Palo Alto, CA)
6. AgileCraft (Austin, TX)
7. Pendo (Raleigh, NC)
8. Branch Metrics (Redwood City, CA)
9. SalesLoft (Atlanta, GA)
10. CultureIQ (New York, NY)

The data for the rankings comes from anonymous employee ratings submitted on Comparably between March 8, 2018-March 8, 2019. Comparably says the final data set was compiled from nearly 10 millions ratings across 50,000 U.S. companies.

You can read more via Comparably here.

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Patch national editor Feroze Dhanoa contributed to this report.

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