These are the 20 best places to work in 2025, according to employees

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January 22, 2025

These are the 20 best places to work in 2025, according to employees

Nvidia, Microsoft, and In-N-Out Burger are among the large companies that employees have rated highly, according to Glassdoor.

BY Shalene Gupta

Job review platform Glassdoor has complied its annual lists of the best places to work in 2025, including a list of the top 100 large employers and the top 50 small and medium-size employers in the United States.

To create the list, Glassdoor drew from employee ratings and reviews submitted between October 2023 and October 2024 and looked at a mix of the quantity, quality, and consistency of reviews.

The list of the best places to work for large (1000-plus employees) U.S. companies features 23 in the San Francisco Bay Area, seven in Washington, D.C., and six in New York City.

Tech companies lead (26 companies), followed by healthcare and finance (nine each), with biotech and pharmaceutical companies (eight) next.

Here are the top 10 companies from the list and their average rating:

  1. Bain & Company: 4.6
  2. Crew Carwash: 4.6
  3. In-N-Out Burger: 4.5
  4. Nvidia: 4.5
  5. Eli Lilly and Company: 4.5
  6. Microsoft: 4.5
  7. eXp Realty: 4.5
  8. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 4.5
  9. RLI: 4.5
  10. MathWorks: 4.4

The list of best places to work for small and medium-size (under 1,000 employees) U.S. companies features 70% newcomers this year. The top four industries represented are tech (10 companies), healthcare (seven), construction, repair, and maintenance (six), and real estate (five companies).

Here are the top 10 and their average rating:

  1. Parry Labs: 4.6
  2. Victors Home Solutions: 4.5
  3. Syndax Pharmaceuticals: 4.5
  4. GlideFast: 4.5
  5. Grow Therapy: 4.5
  6. Schellman: 4.5
  7. Life.Church: 4.5
  8. Saber Building Services: 4.5
  9. Everlight Solar: 4.4
  10. Planful: 4.4
These are the 20 best places to work in 2025, according to employees
 
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shalene Gupta is a frequent contributor to Fast Company, covering Gen Z in the workplace, the psychology of money, and health business news. She is the coauthor of The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It (Public Affairs, 2021) and the author of The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD (Flatiron, 2024) 


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