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Why Employees Like Zuckerberg (and Other Popular CEOs)

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, speaks with journalists at Facebook headquarters.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, speaks with journalists at Facebook headquarters. Photograph by Noah Berger/Bloomberg

Apparently Mark Zuckerberg isn’t liked just among his 17 million followers on Facebook. Of nearly 200,000 CEOs reviewed in the past year on job site Glassdoor.com, Facebook’s chief executive had the highest employee approval rating on the latest rankings of 50 CEOs, at 99.3 percent. Not coincidentally, Facebook also ranked as the best place to work on Glassdoor.

Rounding off the five highest-rated chief executives: software company SAP’s Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe (98.6 percent), McKinsey’s Dominic Barton (97 percent), Ernst & Young’s Jim Turley (96 percent), and John Schlifske of Northwestern Mutual (96 percent). (Dan Doctoroff, the CEO of Bloomberg Businessweek parent Bloomberg LP ranked No. 34 on the list.)