Mere days after a well-received Keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there is even more good news for Apple: its CEO, Tim Cook, has just made his debut in the top ten of an annual ranking of chief executives in the US. On the careers website Glassdoor, current and former Apple employees gave Cook an average approval rating of 94%, leading him to jump eight places in the list.
The approval rating judges his performance as Apple’s CEO in the period from April 2014 to April 2015. Scott Dobroski, a Glassdoor community expert, has opined that Cook is popular because, while he is “more transparent and open with the company and the world than was Steve Jobs”, he is not making dramatic changes – an apparently appreciated approach due to employees’ fondness for Jobs.
Less successful in the rankings this year was Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella. With his approval rating of 81%, he failed to achieve a top fifty placing, though he remained much better-ranking than his predecessor Steve Ballmer, whose rating was just 39% before he left the office in February 2014.
