- 2021
- 2022
- 2021
What is Best Places to Work?
Best Places to Work rates companies algorithmically based on compensation and employer benefits data they provide to us.
50 BEST PAYING COMPANIES IN the Bay Area 2021
Clumio
Cloud + Software
About us
Clumio is the innovator of authentic SaaS for enterprise backup. Using this secure service, organizations eliminate hardware and software for on-premise backup and avoid the complexity and cost of running 3rd party backup software in the cloud.
120
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Clara
Location
Tinder
Mobile + Social Media
About us
Tinder was introduced on a college campus in 2012 and is the world’s most popular app for meeting new people. It has been downloaded more than 340 million times and is available in 190 countries and 40+ languages. As of Q4 2019, Tinder had nearly 5.9 million subscribers and was the highest grossing non-gaming app globally.
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Domino Data Lab
Machine Learning
About us
We’re helping companies unleash the power of data science to address the world’s most important challenges. Our widely-deployed platform enables thousands of data scientists at some of the most influential companies to develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, build better cars, or simply recommend the best song to play next.
100
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Microsoft
Software
About us
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create.
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Calm
Healthtech + Kids + Family
About us
Calm is a leading global health and wellness brand with the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation. With hundreds of hours of original audio content, the Calm app helps users cope with some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, stress and insomnia.
30
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Netflix
Digital Media
About us
Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with 183 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen.
Founded
Los Gatos
Location
Redis Labs
Software
About us
As the home of Redis, the most popular open source database, we provide a competitive edge to global businesses with Redis Enterprise, which delivers superior performance, unmatched reliability, and the best total cost of ownership. Redis Enterprise allows teams to build performance, scalability, security, and growth into their applications.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Mountain View
Location
CircleCI
Software
About us
CircleCI is the best platform for software teams looking to rapidly build quality projects, at scale. Our intelligent continuous integration and delivery tools are simple yet powerful. Our aim is to provide the wisdom of a connected development ecosystem to every team member making technology decisions
100
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Digit
Fintech
About us
We’re on a mission to make financial health effortless for everyone. We first harnessed our technology to help people save money without having to think about it; now, we fully automate the day-to-day work of managing all personal finances to give members the power of a smart financial assistant in their pocket.
104
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Chime
Fintech
About us
We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances.
Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking
399
Local Employees
Founded
Postmates
eCommerce + Food
About us
Postmates is transforming the way goods move around cities by enabling anyone to have anything delivered on-demand. Our revolutionary Urban Logistics platform connects customers with local couriers who can deliver anything from any store or restaurant in minutes.
448
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Snapdocs
Fintech + Real Estate
About us
Snapdocs powers homeownership. Using technology, we’re building the connective tissue for an entire pillar of the U.S. economy: residential real estate. Today, we’re working to perfect mortgage closings, but that’s only the beginning.
91
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Point
Fintech + Real Estate
About us
Point is on a mission to help the millions of equity-rich, but cash-constrained, Americans tap into their homes’ wealth to attain greater financial freedom. Point is truly aligned with consumers’ interests—when the homeowner does well, Point and its investors do well, too.
90
Local Employees
Founded
Palo Alto
Location
Wish
eCommerce
About us
Wish is a mobile e-commerce platform that connects hundreds of millions of consumers with the widest selection of products delivered directly to their doors. Our mission is to provide everyone access to the most affordable and convenient shopping experience on the planet.
476
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Amazon
eCommerce
About us
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives.
Founded
Sunnyvale
Location
Grammarly
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
Grammarly’s digital writing assistant helps 30 million people write more clearly and effectively every day. In building a product that scales across multiple platforms and devices, Grammarly works to empower users whenever and wherever they communicate.
170
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Snap Inc.
Mobile + Social Media
About us
Snap Inc. is a camera company.
At Snap, we believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
150
Local Employees
San Francisco
Location
Bolt
Fintech
About us
Bolt is the world’s first checkout experience platform. Our checkout is optimized for any device and platform and has seamless fraud-detection built-in. We enable customer-obsessed brands to delight shoppers, elevate their brand experience, and mitigate the number of fraudulent transactions.
101
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Instacart
eCommerce + Food
About us
Instacart is the North American leader in online groceries and one of the fastest-growing companies in eCommerce. Instacart shoppers offer same-day delivery and pickup services to bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada.
900
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Evidation Health
Big Data + Healthtech
About us
Evidation measures health in everyday life and enables anyone to participate in groundbreaking research and health programs. We partner with leading healthcare companies to understand health and disease outside the clinic walls. Our mission is to enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.
93
Local Employees
Founded
San Mateo
Location
SentinelOne
Security
About us
SentinelOne was founded in 2013 by an elite team of cyber security and defense experts who developed a fundamentally new, groundbreaking approach to endpoint protection. SentinelOne is a pioneer in delivering autonomous security for the endpoint, datacenter and cloud environments to help organizations secure their assets with speed and simplicity.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Mountain View
Location
Consumer Web
About us
Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in
Founded
Mountain View
Location
Course Hero
Edtech + Social Impact
About us
Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate confident and prepared. We are an online learning platform of course-specific study resources. Our framework enables students to subscribe or contribute their own resources to our platform. We currently have over 40 million course materials in our resource library!
229
Local Employees
Founded
Redwood City
Location
Opendoor
Real Estate
About us
Opendoor’s mission is to empower everyone with the freedom to move. Since 2014, Opendoor has provided people across the US with a radically simple way to buy, sell or trade-in a home. Opendoor currently operates in more than 20 markets in the US and expects to be in 50 cities by the end of 2020. Headquartered in San Francisco, Opendoor has over 1,1
250
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
MuleSoft
Big Data
About us
MuleSoft makes it easy to connect the world’s applications, data and devices. We provide a flexible, unified software platform that enables organizations to easily build application networks using APIs - the digital glue that allows applications to talk to each other and exchange data. MuleSoft is at the heart of the applications and services you u
Founded
San Francisco
Location
MasterClass
Edtech
About us
Launched in 2015, MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best. With an annual membership, subscribers get unlimited access to 90+ instructors and classes across a wide range of subjects, including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into Anna Wintour’s office
200
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
DoorDash
On-Demand + Software
About us
DoorDash is a technology company that connects people with the best in their cities. We empower local businesses and generate new ways for people to earn, work and live. We started with door-to-door delivery, but we see this as just the beginning of connecting people with possibility — easier evenings, happier days and stronger communities.
1 200
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Clari
Software
About us
We are at the forefront of AI and automation to help companies make better business decisions and improve sales execution with real-time access to actionable analytics and predictive insights. We have been declared as a must-have in establishing revenue confidence by over 170 companies such as Okta, Zoom, Medallia, Adobe, and Atlassian.
170
Local Employees
Founded
Sunnyvale
Location
Social Media
About us
Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Over 2 billion people use Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger every month to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
At Facebook,
Founded
Palo Alto
Location
Harness
Cloud + Enterprise Web
About us
Based in San Francisco, Harness is the industry’s first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and redu
83
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Marketo
Marketing Tech
About us
Marketo, an Adobe company, offers the leading Engagement Platform that empowers marketers to build brand value, grow revenue, and prove impact. Consistently recognized as the industry’s innovation pioneer, Marketo is the trusted platform for thousands of CMOs thanks to its scalability, reliability, and openness. To learn more about the Marketo Enga
Founded
San Mateo
Location
Gusto
HR Tech + Software
About us
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide.
364
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Adobe
Software
About us
Adobe is the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. Our creative, marketing and document solutions empower everyone – from emerging artists to global brands – to bring digital creations to life and deliver immersive, compelling experiences to the right person at the right moment for the best results. In short, Adobe is ever
Founded
San Jose
Location
Crunchbase
Software
About us
Crunchbase is the best place to discover innovative companies, connect with the people behind them, and uncover new opportunities. Over 50 million professionals—including entrepreneurs, investors, market researchers, and salespeople—trust Crunchbase to inform their business decisions. We believe diverse thinking fosters the discovery of new
145
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Apple
Hardware
About us
We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including Apple TV, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same innovation
Founded
Cupertino
Location
Verkada Inc
Cloud + Internet of Things
About us
Verkada protects people, assets, and privacy in physical spaces with its hybrid cloud security solution that makes it simple to manage devices at scale. Our vision is to power the modern, integrated building of the future.
448
Local Employees
Founded
San Mateo
Location
VMware
Software
About us
At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our compute, cloud, mobility, networking and security offerings form a digital foundation that powers the apps, services and experience
Founded
Palo Alto
Location
UJET
Software
About us
UJET is the real-time communications platform that makes it easy for customers and businesses to instantly connect so they can resolve problems faster. Headquartered in San Francisco, UJET enables businesses of all sizes to provide support experiences that turn customers into lifetime brand advocates.
83
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Freshworks
Software
About us
Freshworks provides customer engagement software to businesses of all sizes, making it easy for customer support, sales and marketing professionals to communicate more effectively with customers and deliver moments of wow.
150
Local Employees
Founded
San Mateo
Location
Ripple
Fintech
About us
Ripple provides global financial settlement solutions to enable the world to exchange value like it already exchanges information – giving rise to an Internet of Value (IoV). Ripple solutions lower the total cost of settlement by enabling banks to transact directly, instantly and with certainty of settlement.
Founded
San Francisco
Location
InvestCloud, Inc.
Fintech + Software
About us
We're InvestCloud - California-based with a global presence, known for first-class, financial digital solutions, pre-integrated in the cloud. We create beautifully designed client experiences and intuitive operations solutions using our ever-expanding library of digital modular apps.
10
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
BitTorrent
Software
About us
BitTorrent, Inc. is one of the world's leading peer-based technology companies. We maintain a globally recognized ecosystem of technology protocols, consumer software, and consumer electronics devices that help people find, share and move digital media. We are the creators of the BitTorrent protocol and proponents of an open Internet. Our technolog
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Credit Karma
Fintech
About us
We are a mission-driven company, championing financial progress for our more than 100 million members. Through innovative technology and products, we are disrupting the financial industry and making autonomous finance a reality. Our vision is to create a world where everyone has a path to their dreams.
1 030
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Egnyte
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
Egnyte is the Cloud Content Governance platform for a work-from-everywhere world. More than 16,000 businesses trust Egnyte to empower distributed teams, govern business-critical data, and provide secure access to any file, on any device, anywhere. Egnyte is a privately held company with headquarters in Mountain View, CA, and offices in Raleigh, NC,
140
Local Employees
Founded
Mountain View
Location
Coinbase
Fintech
About us
Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system.
700
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Square
Fintech
About us
We believe the economy is better when everyone has access. When everyone has room to grow. No one should be left out because the cost is too great or the technology too complex. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food tru
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Robinhood
Fintech
About us
Robinhood is democratizing finance for all. With customers at the heart of our decisions, Robinhood is lowering barriers, removing fees, and providing greater access to financial information. Together, we are building products and services that help create a financial system everyone can participate in.
820
Local Employees
Founded
Menlo Park
Location
Lattice
HR Tech + Software
About us
Lattice is a people management software for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles and engagement surveys, keep track of OKR/goals, gather real-time feedback, and encourage manager 1-on-1 meetings. Over 1,800 companies worldwide all use Lattice to run performance reviews and employee engagement surveys.
147
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Fastly
Digital Media
About us
Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust the Fastly edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destina
Founded
San Francisco
Location
What is Best Places to Work?
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