Several Bay Area CEOs rank high in Glassdoor employee survey

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Bay Area is home to many of the nation's top CEOs

MILL VALLEY, Calif. (KGO) -- Glassdoor asked people to anonymously rate their CEO's, to create its list of top 100 bosses in 20-19.

The CEO of a Bay Area software company took the number one spot on the Top CEOs 2019 Employees' Choice list. The head of VMware, Pat Gelsinger, has a 99-percent approval rating from employees.

The company posted this tweet yesterday to congratulate him.

In all, 17 Bay Area CEOs made the list:
#1 VMware's Pat Gelsinger (99% CEO approval rating)
#5 Adobe's Shantanu Narayen (98% CEO approval rating)
#8 LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner (97% CEO approval rating)
#9 Intuitive Surgical's Gary S. Guthart (97% CEO approval rating)

#17 Salesforce's Marc Benioff and Keith Block (96% CEO approval rating)
#18 NVIDIA's Jen-Hsun Huang (96% CEO approval rating)
#22 Workday's Aneel Bhusri (96% CEO approval rating)
#27 DocuSign's Daniel Springer (95% CEO approval rating)
#34 PayPal's Dan Schulman (95% CEO approval rating)
#40 Cisco Systems' Chuck Robbins (95% CEO approval rating)
#41 AppDynamics' David Wadhwani (95% CEO approval rating)

#46 Google's Sundar Pichai (94% CEO approval rating)
#55 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (94% CEO approval rating)
#69 Apple's Tim Cook (92% CEO approval rating)
#83 Charles Schwab's Walt Bettinger II (91% CEO approval rating)
#90 Visa Inc's Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. (91% CEO approval rating)
#100 VIPKID's Cindy Mi (90% CEO approval rating)

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