Google 4th On Forbes’ Best Companies To Work For List

By Matt McGee

Published: January 22, 2010 at 12:34 am

Google has placed fourth in Forbes Magazine’s ranking of the Best Places to Work 2010. That’s the same place the company ranked in the 2009 list. In explaining “what makes it so great,” Forbes says:

The search engine king is hiring again: Google plans to add thousands of employees to its payroll in 2010. Though a few perks have been cut in recent years, Google engineers still get to devote 20% of their time to projects of their choosing.

Google ranked number one on the Forbes list in both 2007 and 2008.

Microsoft placed 51st in this year’s survey.

(via Resource Shelf)

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Matt McGee

Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.