Glassdoor: LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner Blows Past Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner skyrocketed up the list of Glassdoor’s sixth annual Employees’ Choice Awards Top CEOs in 2018 list, while his counterpart at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, continued his slow decline. Weiner shot up from No. 35 on the 2017 list and a 94 percent approval rating to No. 8 and 97 percent this year. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg slipped to No. 16 (96 percent approval rating) from No. 10 (98 percent) in 2017 and No. 4 in 2016. A LinkedIn employee based in Omaha, Neb., told Glassdoor, “Best CEO and board in the world, great organization culture, awesome perks, salaries above average, opportunities to develop your career, successful business and good principles of corporate social responsibility.” And a product manager based in Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., told the job and recruiting site, “The company embodies ‘be open’—there is a transparency to the decision making, be it at team level or at management and leadership level, that I've never encountered before. It's refreshing to be able to ask any question I want to Mark.” Eric Yuan, CEO of enterprise video communications provider Zoom Video Communications, finished atop the 2018 list for large companies, while the small and midsized business crown went to Sanjit Biswas, CEO of Samsara, which builds internet-connected sensor systems. Other tech CEOs to crack the 2018 list for large companies included: Marc Benioff, Salesforce, No. 10, 97 percent approval rating Satya Nadella, Microsoft, No. 20, 96 percent Brad Smith, Intuit, No. 22, 96 percent Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment, No. 23, 96 percent Brian Halligan, HubSpot, No. 26, 95 percent Sundar Pichai, Google, No. 45, 94 percent Sprout Social CEO Justyn Howard came in at No. 3 on the SMB list, with a 99 percent approval rating. Glassdoor co-founder and CEO Robert Hohman said in a release announcing the results, “Winning a Glassdoor Top CEO award is a true acknowledgement of exceptional leadership, as it reflects the opinions of the employees who work with a chief executive every day. I congratulate all of this year’s winners on this significant achievement. It can be a real recruiting advantage to have a top-rated CEO at the helm of a company who has strong support from his or her employees. The best CEOs are inspiring, trustworthy, innovative and can be great motivators for people to bring their best selves to work.”