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These 15 Awesome UK Companies Receive 4.0 or Higher Scores on Glassdoor

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Glassdoor Team | Author & Career Expert at Glassdoor | 6 Dec 2018

How can you be confident you’re working for an incredible company? An easy way to find out is to use Glassdoor’s ratings system—points collected on a 5.0 scale from Glassdoor’s millions of users, who have rated their companies on everything from work-life balance to culture and values and senior management. The average company rating on Glassdoor is 3.4, but these 15 companies have ratings of 4.0 or higher, and, also happen to be a selection of the UK’s Best Places to Work in 2019*. So enjoy and apply right now! Wagamama Overall Rating: 4.1 Work-Life Balance Rating: 3.5 Culture & Values Rating: 4.1 Senior Management Rating: 3.9 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 3.6 What Employees Say: “Where to begin? So many happy, friendly faces. Every member of our team Back and Front of House are truly unique and fascinating people. It seems everybody here has hidden talents and hobbies they excel at. The company slogan, ‘Be Wagamama, be you’ isn't just empty rhetoric, it's so true here.” — Current Employee

easyJet Overall Rating: 4.3 Work-Life Balance Rating: 3.6 Culture & Values Rating: 4.2 Senior Management Rating: 3.9 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.2 What Employees Say: “Great working environment, staff oriented management, flexible working options.” — Current Employee

Apple Overall Rating: 4.0 Work-Life Balance Rating: 3.4 Culture & Values Rating: 4.1 Senior Management Rating: 3.5 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.2 What Employees Say: “Take great care of employees. Tons of benefits. Fantastic working environment.” — Former Employee

Siemens Overall Rating: 4.1 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.1 Culture & Values Rating: 4.1 Senior Management Rating: 3.6 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 3.8 What Employees Say: “Good company to work for with great opportunities to move around globally.” — Former Employee

Hilton Overall Rating: 4.0 Work-Life Balance Rating: 3.7 Culture & Values Rating: 4.1 Senior Management Rating: 3.7 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 3.8 What Employees Say: “Great to meet new people daily. Amazing employee hotel benefits. Amazing team.” — Current Employee

REED Overall Rating: 4.1 Work-Life Balance Rating: 3.8 Culture & Values Rating: 4.0 Senior Management Rating: 3.9 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 3.7 What Employees Say: “Great team, wide opportunities, well-defined path for promotion.” — Current Employee

O2 Overall Rating: 4.1 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.1 Culture & Values Rating: 4.1 Senior Management Rating: 3.6 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.0 What Employees Say: “Great team to work and have fun with, really great company with incentives and free gifts whenever you do well. Targets are not difficult to achieve.” — Current Employee

Bromford Overall Rating: 4.5 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.3 Culture & Values Rating: 4.5 Senior Management Rating: 4.2 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.3 What Employees Say: “Inspirational purpose, clear strategy and always surrounded by great people. Great flexibility and trust in you deliver. Really is a great place to work.” — Current Employee

Salesforce Overall Rating: 4.4 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.1 Culture & Values Rating: 4.5 Senior Management Rating: 4.1 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.5 What Employees Say: “Great culture, good benefits, flexible work environment, lovely people, good clients, and innovative technologies.” — Current Employee

Sky Betting & Gaming Overall Rating: 4.3 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.1 Culture & Values Rating: 4.4 Senior Management Rating: 4.0 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.3 What Employees Say: “Ambitious but informal. Open to new ideas and ways of thinking. Flexible and open-minded company.” — Current Employee

Hiscox Overall Rating: 4.2 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.0 Culture & Values Rating: 4.4 Senior Management Rating: 4.1 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.1 What Employees Say: “Lots of opportunities to start a career in financial services and branch out into all kinds of roles such as sales, underwriting, marketing, IT, business analysts, training, compliance, risk management. It’s a great and exciting company to work for and they seem to always be looking for jobs. I have worked here for two years and have never been better treated by an employer.” — Current Employee

SAP Overall Rating: 4.5 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.3 Culture & Values Rating: 4.5 Senior Management Rating: 4.1 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.4 What Employees Say: “A community of like-minded talented people who bring their best-selves to work every day with a daily mission to be better than we were yesterday. Always being made to feel valued, heard and part of something exciting! I'm definitely a lifer!” — Current Employee

Taylor Wimpey Overall Rating: 4.4 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.1 Culture & Values Rating: 4.4 Senior Management Rating: 4.1 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.1 What Employees Say: “Working for Taylor Wimpey is a delight. Great people, who love to innovate and work hard.” — Current Employee

Royal London Overall Rating: 4.2 Work-Life Balance Rating: 4.0 Culture & Values Rating: 4.3 Senior Management Rating: 4.0 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.1 What Employees Say: “For me, working at Royal London was very appealing, great location outside of Manchester city centre, sound senior leadership, solid business performance, flexible working opportunities.” — Former Employee

Microsoft Overall Rating: 4.1 Work-Life Balance Rating: 3.8 Culture & Values Rating: 4.0 Senior Management Rating: 3.5 Compensation and Benefits Rating: 4.0 What Employees Say: “The culture, the energy, the teamwork. I've worked for many companies over my 20-year career. They all have buzzword laden catch phrases to which they just pay lip service until the profit motive overrides them. MS is different. You feel it genuinely practices what it preaches because it realises that sacrificing some pennies today to do the right thing pays dividends over the long term.” — Current Employee

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*Employees’ Choice Award winners for the 2019 Best Places to Work are determined using Glassdoor’s proprietary awards algorithm, and each employer’s rating determined based on the quantity, quality and consistency of Glassdoor-approved company reviews submitted by UK-based employees between 23rd October, 2017 and 21st October, 2018. During the year-long eligibility period, employers considered for the large list must have received at least 30 ratings for each of the eight workplace attributes (overall company rating, career opportunities, compensation & benefits, work/life balance, senior management, culture & values, recommend to a friend and six-month business outlook) taken into account as part of the awards algorithm.
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