10 Most-Liked CEOs In Tech World

CEOs are at helm of company processes— as administrative in charge of total

management of the organization, the post seeks to call tough decisions, which may result
in tough working environment. So CEOs who maintained subtle balance between tough
calls and employee acceptance of their ways, made it to this list of 10 most liked tech
CEOs. The list is compiled by rediff business, on the basis of Glassdoor, a career review
and rating site, on surveying employees at the top tech companies to the approval ratings
of their respective chiefs.

#10 Jeff Bezos

Company: Amazon Approval rating: 79 per cent Global ranking: 10

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and
chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos founded Amazon.com in a garage, leaving
the well paying job at New York City hedge fund. He wanted to make it big on rapid
growth in internet and Supreme Court ruling that online retailers don't have to collect
sales taxes in states where they lack a physical presence, and he did made it big.

The company was listed as 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Fortune, 2009 and World's
Best Companies by BusinessWeek, 2009.
#9 Meg Whitman

Company: Hewlett-Packard Approval rating: 80 per cent Global ranking: 9

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-
Packard. Previously she served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she
was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s.

In the 1990s, she served as an executive for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and
Hasbro. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to
2008. She oversaw expansion of the company over her 10 years presence. The company
grew from 30 employees and $4 million annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees
and $8 billion annual revenue.

#8 Larry Ellison

Company: Oracle Approval rating: 81 per cent Global ranking: 8

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief
executive of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software
companies.

The company has got 108,000 global employees. It was World's Best Companies list by
BusinessWeek, 2009 and America’s Top Companies, Forbes, 2009.

#7 Dan Hesse

Company: Sprint Nextel Approval rating: 85 per cent Last year: 77 per cent
 Global ranking: 7

Daniel R. Hesse became CEO of Sprint Nextel on December 17, 2007. He is also a
spokesperson and voice in Sprint’s “Simply Everything” commercial. He spent 23 years
at AT&T where he started out as an intern. From March 2000 to June 2004 he was CEO
and chairman of Terabeam Corporation. In June 2005 Hesse joined Sprint and oversaw
the spinoff of its landline service.

#6 Joe Tucci

Company: EMC Approval rating: 86 per cent Global ranking: 6

Joseph Tucci, popular as Tucci, is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and
Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation. Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since
January 2006 and President and CEO since January 2001, one year after he joined the
company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Previously Tucci directed the
financial and operational rebirth of Wang Laboratories during six years as its Chairman
and CEO.

Tucci has led the Company to continued market gains and sustained double digit growth.
#5 Paul Maritz

Company: VMWare Approval rating: 90 per cent Global ranking: 5

Paul Maritz was CEO of VMware Corporation from July 8, 2008 to September 1, 2012.
He is succeeded by Pat Gelsinger as CEO. He moved to EMC as chief strategist, a parent
company of VMware, which has 80 percent stakes in the company. Previously he was a
senior executive at Microsoft.

He was often said to be the third-ranking executive, behind Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

#4 Paul Otellini

Company: Intel Approval rating: 93 per cent Global ranking: 4

Paul Otellini is current president and chief executive officer of Intel. He is also on the
board of directors of Google. Otellini joined the company in 1974, and from 1998 to
2002 he was executive vice president and general manager of Intel Architecture Group.
Under Otellini, the company has been listed in 100 best companies to work for, as
published by Forbes in 2012.

#3 Larry Page
Company: Google Approval rating: 94 per cent Global ranking: 3

Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He

co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief
executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt.

Under Page, Google became famous for the perks it offers to its employees. Free food,
healthcare, good pay check, gym and recently Google had gone a mile ahead to help its
employees live a healthy life style by helping them to quit smoking.

#2 Paul Jacobs

Company: Qualcomm Approval rating: 95 per cent Global rank: 2

Paul E. Jacobs has been Chief Executive Officer of the company since July 2005.
Previously he served as Group President of Qualcomm Wireless and Internet Group, and
started as an engineer in the wireless technology development group.

The company under his leadership has been employees’ choice of 50 best places to work,
as per Glassdoor survey in 2012.

#1 Tim Cook
Company: Apple Approval rating: 97 per cent Global rank: 1
Timothy D "Tim" Cook is the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He joined Apple in
March 1998 as SVP, later served as EVP, and COO until he succeeded Steve Jobs up on
his resignation on August 24, 2011.

Despite the fact that Cook is constantly measured against the legend Steve Jobs, in an
interview with AllThingsD, he said “"I've never felt the weight of trying to be Steve. It's
not who I am, and it's not my goal in life."

Fortune’s Lashinsky, senior editor and Author of the book Inside Apple also noted that,
unlike Jobs, Cook sometimes sits down with employees at lunchtime, highlighting the
contrasting personalities of Cook and Jobs, Jobs who fired employees on site even for
small incompetence.