Microsoft’s CEO Overtakes Apple’s in Employee Approval Rating Top

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook dropped no less than 45 places in a survey published by recruiting website Glassdoor and analyzing the employee approval rating of company executives.

For comparison, while Tim Cook is now on position 53, Microsoft’s CEO is doing a lot better, reaching the 29th place, but remaining behind Google’s Sundar Pichai who is currently 17th.

The leading CEO in the United States is Benno Dorer of The Clorox Company, followed by Jim Kavanaugh of World Wide Technology and Boston Scientific’s Michael F. Mahoney. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reached the 10th place, ahead of Salesforce’s Marc Benioff who’s currently the 15th.

Satya Nadella a lot more popular among employees

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has an approval rating of 95 percent, as compared to Apple’s Tim Cook who dropped to 93 percent.

While Cook’s decline is certainly unexpected, it’s worth noting that the difference between the first places is not that big in terms of percentage points and Apple’s CEO remains among the highest-rated company leaders out there. Glassdoor says the average CEO rating is 67 percent, so Cook is doing a lot better even with this massive decline.

But on the other hand, the growth experienced by Microsoft’s Satya Nadella shows that most of the company’s employees agree with the direction embraced by the software giant. Only 5 percent of the firm’s workers gave Nadella a negative rating, and that says a lot about the impact Steve Ballmer’s successor made at the world’s number one software company.

“Everyone I worked with was very dedicated to the success of the team as a whole. There was very little politics or infighting at my level,” one employee says in his rating on Glassdoor, while also adding in the cons section that “the company focuses too much on building new things rather than improving and promoting the awesome stuff they built last time.”

Obviously, both Microsoft and Apple remain two of the best companies to work for in the entire world, but between the two, Satya Nadella seems to be a lot more popular among employees.