The 27 best tech CEOs, according to employees

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1 The 27 best tech CEOs, according to employees JULIE BORT AND CAROLINE CAKEBREAD JUN. 21, 2017, 9:30 AM Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella makes his first appearance on Glassdoor's annual list of the best-rated CEOs Microsoft The tech industry is wringing its hands these days now that one exposé after another has revealed some pretty awful working conditions at a number of high-flying tech companies. But there's another side to the story. There are still lots of places where employees love their jobs, love their companies and believe their CEOs are leading them well. Glassdoor looked through its database of 32 million employee reviews to analyze the ones posted between between May 2, 2016 and May 1, It analyzed that data and on Tuesday, released its 2017 list of the 100 best CEOs, based on employee approval. As usual, tech company CEOs made a strong showing on the ful list of 100, taking one-quarter of the list. Take a look.

2 3 tech CEOs have made this list all five years, but none of them landed the top-ranked spot. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The three CEOs are: Facebook s Mark Zuckerberg (98% approval) Salesforce s Marc Benioff (97% approval) Apple s Tim Cook (93% approval)

3 Several big-name CEOs landed on the 2017 list for the first time ever Getty Images/Mat Hayward Newcomers to the 2017 list include: Microsoft s Satya Nadella (95% approval) Square s Jack Dorsey (94% approval) VMware s Pat Gelsinger. (90% approval)

4 Only one woman landed on the tech list, squeaking in at No. 27: Stitch Fix s Katrina Lake ShopTalk 89% approval rating No. 27 among tech CEOs No. 100 on the full list of 100 Stitch Fix is an online subscription personal shopping service for clothing.

5 No. 26: SAIC s Anthony Moraco SAIC 90% approval rating No. 26 among tech CEOs No. 95 on the full list of 100 SAIC is a government contractor company that provides IT consulting and services to various agencies and other corporations.

6 No. 25: Gartner s Gene Hall Gartner 90% approval rating No. 25 among tech CEOs No. 94 on the full list of 100 Gartner is a technology market research company.

7 No. 24: ebay's Devin Wenig ebay CEO Devin Wenig ebay 90% approval rating No. 24 among Tech CEOs No. 87 on the full list of 100 ebay is an ecommerce and online auction site.

8 No. 23: VMware's Pat Gelsinger VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger VMware 90% approval rating No. 23 among tech CEOs No. 83 on the full list of 100 VMware is a company that makes software for enterprise data centers.

9 No. 22: Kronos's Aron Ain Kronos 93% approval rating No. 22 among tech CEOs No. 54 on the full list of 100 Kronos offers human resources software.

10 No. 21: Apple's Tim Cook AP 93% approval rating No. 21 among tech CEOs No. 53 on the full list of 100 Apple makes consumer electronics like the Macintosh PC, iphone, ipad and ipod.

11 No. 20: Texas Instruments Rich Templeton Rich Templeton, CEO Texas Instruments Texas Instruments 93% approval rating No. 20 among tech CEOs No. 51 on the full list of 100 Texas Instruments is a computer chip manufacturer.

12 No. 19: Zillow s Spencer Rascoff Zill Courtesy of Zillow 93% approval rating No. 19 among tech CEOs No. 48 on the full list of 100 Zillow is an online real estate marketplace for buying, selling, and renting property.

13 No. 18: Expedia s Dara Khosrowshahi Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Expedia Expedia 94% approval rating No. 18 among tech CEOs No. 39 on the full list of 100 Expedia is an online travel booking site.

14 No. 17: Square s Jack Dorsey Kimberly White/Getty Images 94% approval rating No. 17 among Tech CEOs No. 38 on the full list of 100 Square is a company that created the iphone/ipad cash register device. Note: Dorsey is also the CEO of Twitter but currently holds only a 73% approval rating by Twitter employees, not high enough to land in the top 100 CEOs.

15 No. 16: LinkedIn s Jeff Weiner Justin Sullivan/Getty 94% approval rating No. 16 among Tech CEOs No. 35 on the full list of 100 LinkedIn, now a subsidiary of Microsoft, is a job-hunting site, prospect-hunting site and social network for business professionals.

16 No. 15: Yardi Systems Anant Yardi Pacific Coast Business Times Newsroom 94% approval rating No. 15 among tech CEOs No. 32 on the full list of 100 Yardi Systems offers accounting and property management software for the real estate industry.

17 No. 14: Juniper Networks Rami Rahim Juniper CEO Rami Rahim Juniper Networks 95% approval rating No. 14 among tech CEOS No. 31 on the full list of 100 Juniper Networks offers equipment for building and securing computer networks.

18 No. 13: Microsoft s Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images 95% approval rating No. 13 among tech CEOs No. 29 on the full list of 100 Microsoft is one of the world's biggest software and consumer electronics companies, makers of the Windows operating system, the Surface PC, the Xbox, and Office 365.

19 No.12: SAP s Bill McDermott AP 96% approval rating No. 12 among tech CEOs No. 24 on the full list of 100 SAP is one of the world's largest enterprise software companies best known for its financial software.

20 No. 11: CDW s Thomas E. Richards CDW 96% approval rating No. 11 among tech CEOs No. 23 on the full list of 100 CDW is a distributor that sells IT equipment of every kind to consultants and businesses.

21 No. 10: Adobe s Shantanu Narayen Flickr / Fortune Live Media 96% approval rating No. 10 among tech CEOs No. 19 on the full list of 100 Adobe offers design, graphic design and marketing software.

22 No. 9: Google s Sundar Pichai Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 96% approval rating No. 9 among tech CEOs No. 17 on the full list of 100 Google is the world's largest internet search company that also offers other tech products like the Android operating system and online apps such as .

23 No. 8: Salesforce s Marc Benioff Marc Benioff speaks during the Fortune Global Forum - Day2 at the Fairmont Hotel on November 3, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White/Getty 97% approval rating No. 8 among tech CEOs No. 15 on the full list of 100 Salesforce is a company that offers sales, marketing and support software.

24 No. 7: Intuit s Brad Smith Amy Sussman/Invision for Intuit, Inc./AP Images 97% approval rating No. 7 among tech CEOs No. 13 on the full list of 100 Intuit offers personal financial and tax software as well as loans.

25 No. 6: Paylocity s Steve Beauchamp Steven Beauchamp Twitter 98% approval rating No. 6 among tech CEOs No. 11 on the full list of 100 Paylocity offers online human resources and payroll software.

26 No. 5: Facebook s Mark Zuckerberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. AP 98% approval rating No. 5 among tech CEOs No. 10 on the full list of 100 Facebook operates the world's largest social networking site.

27 No. 4: HubSpot s Brian Halligan Matt Plays, HubSpot 98% approval rating No. 4 among tech CEOs No. 9 on the full list of 100 HubSpot offers sales and marketing software.

28 No. 3: NVIDIA s Jen-Hsun Huang NVIDIA/Youtube 99% approval rating No. 3 among tech CEOS No. 6 on the full list of 100 NVIDIA makes graphics processing chips and boards.

29 No. 2: Fast Enterprises Martin Rankin Fast Enterprises CEO Martin Rankin Fast Enterprises/Glassdoor 99% approval rating No. 2 among tech CEOs No. 5 on the full list of 100 Fast Enterprises is a government contractor IT consulting company.

30 No. 1: World Wide Technology s Jim Kavanaugh WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh Wikipedia/Mrigden 99% approval rating No. 1 among tech CEOS No. 2 on the full list of 100 Kavanaugh grabs the No. 1 spot on the 2017 tech list with a whopping 99% approval rating. World Wide Technology is technology consulting company that helps business adopt technologies like cloud computing, computer security, mobile software, or upgrade their networks.