Analyzing Employee Reviews: Google vs Amazon vs Apple vs Microsoft

Which company is it worth working for?

Andres Vourakis
Towards Data Science
10 min readApr 26, 2019

Overview

Whether it is for their ability to offer high salaries, extravagant perks, or their exciting mission statements, it is clear that top companies like Google and Microsoft have become talent magnets. To put it into perspective, Google alone receives more than two million job applications each year.

Working for a top tech company is many people’s dream, it was certainly mine for a long time, but shouldn’t we be asking ourselves “Is it really worth working for one of these companies?” Well, who better to help us answer this question than their own employees. In this article, I will walk you through my analysis of Employee Reviews for Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple and try to uncover some meaningful information that will hopefully illuminate us when deciding which company it’s worth working for.

I will start by describing how I cleaned and processed the data, and then talk about my analysis with the help of some visualizations. Let’s get started!!

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Written by Andres Vourakis

Data Scientist turned Solopreneur. Follow my journey to Financial Freedom. https://linktr.ee/avourakis

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