Facebook's reputation as an employer is really suffering

It appears the fallout from Facebook's year of scandal has hurt employees' morale.

After topping Glassdoor's list of best places to work for 2018, Facebook fell dramatically to seventh place in the newly-released 2019 ranking. The company's overall score dropped from 4.6 to 4.5 out of five, marking the first time Facebook's score has declined since 2015, CNBC reports. LinkedIn now ranks above Facebook, as does Zoom Video Communications, which earned second place. Sitting at number one on the list this year is Bain & Company, a management consulting company.

Glassdoor bases its ranking on a number of factors, but if you just look at Facebook's employee satisfaction, the decline is more significant, per CNBC. In the first quarter of 2018, Facebook's employee satisfaction rating was at 4.6. But now, at the end of the year, it's at 4.3. Google also fell in the ranks compared to last year, although it only dropped three spots compared to Facebook's six, now coming in at number eight. Apple and Microsoft, meanwhile, moved up the list.

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Facebook's 2018 has been a public relations disaster, starting with revelations in May that a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, had improperly gained access to users' private information. The New York Times reported recently that the company knew about Russian interference on its platform before it let on, and that it hired a lobbying firm to attack critics by linking them to liberal billionaire George Soros.

Glassdoor's findings fit in with a Wall Street Journal report from last month that employee morale has taken a hit at Facebook, with "several key measures of internal sentiment taking a sharp turn for the worse over the past year."