20 Tech Companies With Great Perks and Professional Opportunities

Twelve is the magic number. 

It’s the average number of jobs that people have in their lifetime, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

But what makes someone change jobs? Well, that depends on a lot of factors — such as where someone lives, age and economic status. For example, Gallup found that only about a third of millennials are engaged at work and are emotionally connected to their job. 

There are also a wide array of factors that keep someone at a job. Financial stability is a top reason around the world, but so are company values. LinkedIn found that company values are important for professionals all around the world; 59 percent of respondents in Europe won’t work for an organization that doesn’t share their values. 

The day-to-day tasks, perks and relationships are also key. Pew Research Center found that about half of workers are “satisfied with their day-to-day tasks, the amount of feedback they receive from their manager or supervisor on how they’re doing their job and the benefits their employer provides, such as health insurance and paid time off.” 

As we head into September and post-summer job seeking gets serious, Built In found 20 tech companies that are making a point to offer coveted perks and professional development opportunities that help employees grow. 

 

General Motors is an automotive company. 

Global Support for Women: General Motors may have started in Michigan, but today the company has employees spread all around the world. General Motors teammates speak over 70 languages and work across 23 different time zones, which makes the 13 employee resource groups an important aspect of community building. One of those communities is the GM Women ERG. 

“As a company, we want to reflect the world around us and make sure every employee knows they can bring their true self to work,” said GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra in Forbes. “GM has long been a global leader in advocating for women’s equality in the workplace, and I have the honor of leading the company today because of the many decades of commitment to providing opportunities and advancing women.” 

 

 

Motorola Solutions creates communication solutions and technology designed to create safer communities and cities.

More Than Phones: When working at Motorola Solutions, a new teammate can expect to work on a wide range of technologies, including police cameras and frontline responder tech, for safety worldwide. Motorola Solutions recently announced an agreement in Germany with the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior to supply more than 1,200 body cameras to the police. In Western Australia, police officers will now use Motorola Solutions to document family and domestic violence. The company also announced SmartIncident, an application that lets dispatchers push critical incident information directly to a first responder’s smart radio. 

 

 

Chewy is a healthtech company for pet parents, offering e-commerce options for food, toys and prescription services. In addition, the company has brick-and-mortar Chewy Vet locations. 

Prioritizing Pet Health: Taking care of furry family members is a big deal to Chewy, which is why the company created CarePlus, an exclusive suite of insurance and wellness offerings to help with pet health. And the need for this offering is massive: A survey by Chewy found that 71 percent of pet parents put their pet’s needs before their own, and 46 percent have spent more on their pet’s medical care than their own. CarePlus is just one example of how the company is multifaceted. Chewy hires for tech, pharmacy, veterinary, customer service and fulfillment teams regularly. 

 

 

CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that protects and enables the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise. 

Growth and Reward: CrowdStrike recently surpassed $1 billion in sales over the lifetime of its partnership with CDW Corp, which provides IT solutions to business and government customers in North America and the U.K. The growing company allows employees to work from anywhere and values passion projects outside of work. Its annual “Think Week” allows employees to spend time on these projects, and at the end of the week, it hands out  awards like Team Bravo and Hero. 

 

 

The Aerospace Corporation is an aerospace architect for U.S. space programs in the public and private sectors. 

Experts and Newbies Welcome: The Aerospace Corporation has every level of talent in its roster. Its website states that “more than two-thirds of Aerospace’s technical staff holds an advanced degree, with 788 holding a Ph.D. in their respective fields.” The company also has opportunities for students and recent graduates ranging from the undergraduate level to Ph.D. candidates.  

 

 

Cash App is a fintech company that was initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments. 

Team Scam Prevention: When joining the team at Cash App, expect to help battle the $10 billion that consumers lost to scams in 2023. Cash App teams are constantly trying to safeguard users, like through a machine-learning system that warns customers that their transaction may be part of a scam. 

 

 

Dotdash Meredith is a digital and print publisher with over 40 brands like People, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, Real Simple, Investopedia, Southern Living and more.

Environmental Goals: Like most tech companies, Dotdash Meredith’s pursuit of its environmental goals is no small task. The media company aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5.25 percent each year until 2030. In the Des Moines, Iowa, and Birmingham, Alabama, offices, the company has composting programs. There is also a companywide green team called Down to Earth. 

 

 

Braze is a customer engagement platform that allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source. 

Growing Fast: Braze has more than 150 engineers to support the company’s growth, and shows no sign of slowing. “We’ve grown rapidly from a small startup in New York to one of the largest digital platforms in the world with offices in New York, London, San Francisco and Singapore,” Co-founder and CEO Bill Magnuson told Built In New York. “We currently manage the relationships of 1.8 billion monthly active users on behalf of our customers, and send tens of billions of personalized messages every month. As we continue to grow and expand into new markets, our mission stays the same: we are constantly looking for ways to create stronger, more sustainable and valuable relationships between brands and customers with technology.”

 

 

Bullhorn offers an applicant tracking system curated for the staffing industry. 

Early-Career Welcoming: Bullhorn welcomes all levels of applicants, but it’s an especially great place to work if you are an early- or new-career team member. The company partners with groups that offer hands-on training and mentorship, such as Code Differently, which provides coding classes, and Tech Elevator, an in-person and online education provider that teaches technology skills. 

 

 

Thumbtack is a professional service software platform for homeowners who can hire from over 300,000 local service businesses. 

The Family Home: Thumbtack helps users repair their homes, but it also helps its employees take care of their families. Thumbtack offers a health reimbursement account for infertility, gender dysphoria and adoption assistance with $10,000 per year, at a $30,000 lifetime maximum. The company also offers childcare benefits and family medical leave, along with a generous parental leave, where all parents get 12 weeks of leave and birthing parents could receive up to eight additional weeks. 

 

 

GRAIL is a healthcare company that uses high-intensity sequencing, population-scale clinical studies and state-of-the-art computer and data science to understand cancer biology in the hopes of detecting cancer early, when it can be cured.

AI Advanced: GRAIL’s Galleri test can detect a signal shared by over 50 types of cancer. GRAIL uses AI to identify genomic patterns and differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells in the body. The company aims to shape the future of cancer screening.

 

 

EDB offers a Postgres data and AI platform to help customers manage more workloads from a single platform for database, data warehouse, data lakes and AI workloads from cloud to on-premises.

Cutting-Edge AI: EnterpriseDB’s Postgres AI is an intelligent data platform for transactional, analytical and new AI workloads. The platform is powered by Postgres and can be used as a “cloud-managed service, self-managed software or as a physical appliance,” according to the company’s website. Teammates who work on the data and product side of EnterpriseDB get to work on strategic analytics and data science projects. 

 

 

AutoStore is a warehouse robot technology company. 

How it Started: AutoStore started out as the Hatteland Group in Northern Europe as a warehouse and seller of electronic components. HattelandTechnical Director Ingvar Hognaland saw the shelves fill to capacity in the first month, which gave him the realization to store warehouse items like a Rubik’s cube instead of dominoes. 

 

 

Alma provides access to high-quality, affordable mental health care by making it easy and financially rewarding for therapists to accept insurance and offer in-network care. 

Mental Health First: Alma helps customers and its employees find mental health care —  even the company’s core values are aspects of good mental health: “Embrace Change,” “Listen First,” “Act Like an Owner,” “Build Equity” and “Communicate Honestly.” Team members care about each other and the company’s clients as much as they do their own careers. “Mental health care is a very intimate and highly personal experience,” Founder and CEO Dr. Harry Ritter noted on the Alma website. “There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to high-quality care. At Alma, our job is to support providers and champion their expertise so they can focus on meeting clients where they are and partnering with them to achieve lasting results.”

 

 

IonQ is a quantum computing company. 

Advancing Blind Quantum Computing: In April, IonQ announced a $25.5 million partnership with the United States Air Force Research Lab. Recently, the company added to that partnership a commitment to design a “first-of-its-kind, multi-node, blind quantum computing system” for the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security, according to IonQ’s website. A press release shared that “delivering a first-of-its-kind, blind quantum computing system will enable ARLIS to test and validate communications for the DOD,” said Peter Chapman, president and CEO of IonQ. “Through our collaboration with ARLIS and UMD teams, we look forward to each phase of development, construction and deployment as we anticipate significant breakthroughs in the development of blind quantum computing protocols.”

 

 

Grow Therapy is a healthtech company that helps independent therapists launch and grow in-network private practices through software that assists with credentialing, referrals, billing, insurance claims and more. 

Stipends for All: It’s not surprising that a healthtech company that focuses on therapy makes a point to take care of employee’s mental health. In addition to its mental health benefits, Grow Therapy gives teammates a $1,000 stipend for setting up a remote home office, $500 for tools or training for professional development and $300 for a general wellness stipend.

 

 

Arity was founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, and today is a mobility data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. 

By the Numbers: When joining Arity, a new teammate can expect to use internal research as a guiding source of truth — and that research is thorough. Take, for example, the 86 percent of U.S. drivers who told Arity that they “would be more willing to share driving behavior data if they knew it could help prevent the loss of life,” as noted by a company press release. The transportation analytics company runs frequent surveys, releases research reports and is seen as an expert in the field of transportation data. 

 

 

Healthcare Management Administrators is a healthtech insurance company that uses a data-driven approach to provide customized healthcare plans for Pacific Northwest employers. 

Professional Development Focused: Healthcare Management Administrators provides a mix of learning opportunities, coaching and compensation incentives to help teammates grow and take on new challenges in their careers. The company has regular lunch-and-learn sessions and a learning platform, and it trains all leaders with a “Situational Leadership II” course. 

 

 

MyBambu is a mobile app offering financial solutions with the aim of bringing accessible, trustworthy and affordable services to everyone, regardless of their immigration status.

Community Focused: MyBambu is dedicated to serving the community, especially immigrant and Hispanic communities. The company sponsors friendly soccer matches in Houston, Fort Lauderdale and New Jersey. Its team also attended the Florida Farm Workers Association Annual Health Fair to honor The National Farmers Health Day with support for workers and their families. MyBambu also volunteers financial guidance for laborers at the El Sol, Neighborhood Resource Center in Jupiter, Florida.

 

 

Ascent is an AI fintech company that makes a compliance automation solution to help customers in financial services automate their compliance programs.

DEI Focused: Ascent places a big priority on DEI. The company is partnered with Holistic, a people analytics firm that helps measure DEI efforts, and Ascent’s DEI Committee hosts events like: a Women’s Day panel, LGBTQ+ Pride trivia and anti-racism training.