Though 2018 has been a year full of scandals and data
breaches for tech industry, some employees still praised their executives for
their leadership, of which Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella surpassed all.
Comparably, website that rates firms across a number of
various areas, released a list of Best CEOs of 2018 is US, in terms of voting
by the employees. Satya Nadella made it to the first place followed by The Home
Depot’s CEO Craig Menear as the second and Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the
third place, surpassing all other biggies.
“Microsoft had thousands of employees partake in the study.
(Nadella) had incredible scores from his team,” said Jason Nazar, Co-Founder
and CEO of Comparably.
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Nazar said Microsoft employees have had time to see ‘how he
dealt when times were really good, but also when there were mishaps. The team
felt that he handled the mishaps with grace’.
Apart from Nadella, other tech biggies also made it to the
list including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at 6th place, Apple CEO Tim Cook at 12th
position, Space/Tesla CEO Elon Musk ranked at 19th place, Dell CEO Michael Dell
as 25th, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at 27th, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at
33rd place and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at 37th position.
Nadella was appointed Microsoft’s CEO back in 2014. Since
then, Nadella has made numerous advancements in the firm’s cloud computing
technology and artificial intelligence, while also focusing on emerging
technologies from old software and hardware business.
The data was complied via survey responses from anonymous
employees at some of the country’s largest companies that have 500 or more
employees. The website then assembled data from around 10 million rating across
50,000 US firms, wrote USA Today.
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