The 25 best companies to work for in the Bay Area

• Comparably published its latest iteration of the top companies to work for in the Bay Area.
• The ranking also included those who work remotely but noted their office is in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Uber, DataStax, and Chegg are three great Bay Area places to work for, according to employees that work there and that have rated their companies.

Comparably, a company where people can anonymously rate the places they work at, releases a few different annual rankings throughout the year. That includes the annual ranking for the best companies to work for in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The company used anonymous ratings and responses to questions about employers from workers to create the list. While these companies may have offices in this area, some people may have the option to work from home, given remote work has become a popular way to work during the last few years at some companies. Therefore, Comparably also used the ratings of those who work remotely at least part of the time, but who noted a Bay Area office. Ratings used in the analysis were of those left by people on the site from February 27, 2022 through February 27, 2023.

Based on Comparably's methodology that used anonymous responses on multiple workplace topics, such as compensation and work-life balance, Calix moved up this year to the very top of the list. Uber is another company that moved up the list — from No. 50 in the last iteration of this annual ranking to No. 22 this time.

Below are the top 25 companies in the Bay Area. In addition to the ranking results, the industries for each company below were given to Insider from Comparably.

25. Pilot

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Industry: Technology

24. Bloomreach

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Industry: Technology

23. CriticalRiver

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Industry: IT enabled services

22. Uber

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Industry: Ridesharing mobile app

21. Elastic

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Industry: Technology

20. Contentstack

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Industry: Content delivery network

19. Arista Networks

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Industry: Technology — networking equipment

18. Cribl

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Industry: Technology

17. Socotra

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Industry: Enterprise software for insurance carriers

16. Betterworks

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Industry: Technology

15. 6sense

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Industry: Analytics/SaaS

14. Momentive.ai

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Industry: Technology

13. Productboard

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Industry: SaaS

12. Chegg

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Industry: Higher education

11. Mixpanel

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Industry: Data analytics

10. Branch

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Industry: App marketing

9. Adobe

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Industry: Enterprise software

8. DataStax

DataStax ranked toward the top of Comparably's latest iteration of the best companies to work in the San Francisco Bay Area.      Courtesy of Comparably

Industry: Technology

7. FinancialForce

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Industry: Technology

6. Instacart

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Industry: E-commerce

5. Workday

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Industry: SaaS

4. SentinelOne

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Industry: Cybersecurity

3. Informatica

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Industry: Information technology

2. Palo Alto Networks

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Industry: Cybersecurity

1. Calix

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Industry: Telecommunications software

Here is how other companies also ranked

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