WHY WE'RE A BEST PLACE TO WORK

CodeScience has a commitment to its values that starts with our founder, Mike Witherspoon, and emanates throughout our teams. We are committed to building collaborative and supportive teams, praising employees when they do excellent work, and maintaining a relaxed office environment. We try to bring out the best in people by giving them the resources, space, and encouragement to shine and grow. We've seen reserved employees grow in a matter of weeks to celebrating their team, because it is what our company is built on.

WHY WE'RE A BEST PLACE TO WORK

Cogent Entertainment Marketing has created a culture and workplace that allows for endless growth and opportunity. Aside from offering great perks like unlimited PTO and quarterly office outings, Cogent's chief executive officer, Mark Zablow, has been a firm believer in providing coaching across the entire organization, ensuring team members have the tools needed to succeed. Mark spends one-on-one time with each team member. Cogent's notoriety as a powerhouse of excellence in the entertainment marketing arena is directly associated with our culture.

We believe our employees are our most important asset, and that happy employees lead to a successful company. As we've grown, and since the pandemic began, we've had to work to preserve our family-like environment. This includes creating a "fun" Slack channel for employees to share photos and milestones, hosting virtual happy hours and holiday parties, sending out silly polls, and creating employee trivia questions to get to know one another. We also ask employees to set a personal goal each year and help them achieve it.

WHY WE'RE A BEST PLACE TO WORK

Contrast has experienced tremendous growth over the past year, and as we've scaled, our company culture has been at the forefront of each pivotal milestone. Our blend of unique business practices, a diverse workforce, and a customer-centric business model has helped shape our high-performing tech culture. We recently established a new set of company values for which employees had been asked to rank values on the basis of their personal beliefs. We believe in a bottom-up approach to solving problems.

Our long tradition of inclusivity begins with our co-founders, two of whom are women. The composition of our staff reflects our intentional, consistent approach. Over 40 percent of our employees identify as non-White. We proudly support our LGBTQ+ colleagues, and we count more than 46 nationalities among our staff. Our Green Team reinforces the importance of sustainability by making socially responsible, ecofriendly choices in our business decisions. We regularly donate time and resources to support disaster relief, medical aid, and environmental recovery. Our staff also provides pro bono litigation support to a range of nonprofit organizations.