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Mark Zuckerberg Beats Larry Page, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and Everyone Else

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By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool

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If happy employees perform better, Facebook should be crushing the market right now.

More than 99% approve of CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the latest Glassdoor survey, yet the stock has lagged since the IPO and remains down nearly 3% year to date despite a 9% rally in the S&P 500. Glassdoor also rates the social network as the best place to work, a ranking current and former employees corroborated in comments left at the site.

“It is good to work here with the smartest people in San Francisco Bay Area. The company is always moving fast,” wrote one software engineer.

Another current employee said Facebook is an “amazing” place to work and cited autonomy and discretion to achieve results as reasons why. Precisely the sorts of comments you want to see when success depends on winning the war for technical talent.

Zuck beat out several notable names in taking the top spot among CEOs:

  • Google‘s Larry Page ranked 11th.

  • Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos ranked 16th.

  • Apple‘s Tim Cook came in at 18th.

To be fair, all four CEOs netted better than 90% approval from their respective workforces. But only Zuck achieved the elusive 99% percentile. Well done, sir.

How loudly should investors cheer? That’s less certain. Judging from history, direction matters more than score. Consider Cook‘s performance. He’s down 4 percentage points — from 97% to 93% — in a terrible year for Apple shareholders.

By contrast, the late Steve Jobs left the top post with a 95% approval rating among workers. Investors had to be equally pleased, given the multibagger returns he and his team produced over an epic 14-year comeback.

Which path will Zuckerberg take? I think it’s too early to tell, but I also believe talent — especially engaged, excited, happy talent — is always more likely to produce for investors. Right now, Facebook has that in spades.

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Facebook Just Dethroned Apple

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By Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool

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While Apple and Facebook are partners in many ways and don’t directly compete on any fronts, the social networker has just dethroned the Mac maker in an important way: CEO approval ratings.

Career site Glassdoor has just released its annual survey of employee approval ratings of major companies, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has shot up to claim the No. 1 spot. Zuckerberg earned a whopping 99% approval rating among professional Facebookers. Apple’s Tim Cook earned a 93% approval rating, down from 97% last year.

Other notable tech mentions in the 2013 rankings were Qualcomm‘s Paul Jacobs and Google‘s Larry Page, both of whom got thumbs up ratings from 95% of respondents. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wasn’t far behind, with 94% of employees backing him.

CEO / Company

2012 Approval Rating

2012 Rank

2013 Approval Rating

2013 Rank

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook

N/A

N/A

99%

1

Paul Jacobs / Qualcomm

95%

3

95%

8

Larry Page / Google

94%

5

95%

11

Jen-Hsun Huang / NVIDIA

N/A

N/A

94%

15

Tim Cook / Apple

97%

1

93%

18

Source: Glassdoor. N/A = not available because CEO did not rank in top 25 for 2012.

The rankings have tightened as employee approval ratings climbed. Even though Larry Page earned a higher rating in 2013, Google’s overall ranking fell from No. 5 to No. 11 this year. The same is true for Paul Jacobs, since Qualcomm’s ranking also fell even though the CEO kept the same approval rating.

Neither Facebook nor NVIDIA ranked within the top 25 last year, but now the CEOs of both companies have jumped to earn respectable 2013 rankings. NVIDIA has increased its competitive pressure on Qualcomm over the past year, and employees seem to support Huang’s strategic advances. Tim Cook appears to be losing support from employees, even though investors should still believe in him.

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