The global consulting firm Bain and Company based in Los Angeles tops the list, but Twitter, headquartered in San Francisco, came in second, LinkedIn in Mountain View came in third and Facebook, based in Menlo Park, was fifth.
Glassdoor based the list entirely on feedback shared by employees over the past year.
Bay Area Companies in the Top 50:- Twitter (Rank: #2, Rating: 4.6, HQ: San Francisco, CA)
- LinkedIn (#3, 4.6, HQ: Mountain View, CA)
- Facebook (#5, 4.5, HQ: Menlo Park, CA)
- Guidewire (#6, 4.5, HQ: Foster City, CA)
- Google (#8, 4.3, HQ: Mountain View, CA)
- Chevron (#14, 4.2, HQ: San Ramon, CA)
- Riverbed Technology (#17, 4.1, HQ: San Francisco, CA)
- SolarCity (#18, 4.1, HQ: San Mateo, CA)
- Intuit (#19, 4.1, HQ: Mountain View, CA)
- Genentech (#25, 4.0, HQ: South San Francisco, CA)
- Intel (#33, 3.8, HQ: Santa Clara, CA)
- Apple (#35, 3.8, HQ: Cupertino, CA)
- NetApp (#41, 3.8, HQ: Sunnyvale, CA)
- eBay (#49, 3.8, HQ: San Jose, CA)
- Salesforce.com (#50, 3.8, HQ: San Francisco, CA)
Company ratings based on a 5-point scale: 1.0=very dissatisfied, 3.0=OK, 5.0=very satisfied. COMPLETE RESULTS: Check out Glassdoor's complete list of 50 Best Places to Work in 2014.
