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Most-loved tech CEOs of 2014

Frank D'Souza, Cognizant Technology Solutions

* 2014 approval rating: 90%

* Overall rank: 24

What employees think:
"Transparent and proper visibility to the management. Good employee benefit programmes. Smart market strategy for overall company growth." – Cognizant Technology Solutions quality assurance engineer (Atlanta)
John Donahoe, eBay

* 2014 approval rating: 91%

* Overall rank: 19

What employees think:
"The CEO of the company is smart, passionate and sincere. John Donahoe is the real deal and a great leader. He may be the most approachable CEO Ie ever met." – eBay Inc director (San Jose, CA)
Tim Cook, Apple

* 2014 approval rating: 92%

* Overall rank: 17

What employees think:
"You feel like everything you do has a direct impact and you are a stakeholder. The VPs and CEO are not removed either. Its common to see them eating lunch on campus amongst everyone else." – Apple front end engineer (Cupertino, CA)
Jerry Kennelly, Riverbed Technology

* 2014 approval rating: 93%

* Overall rank: 13

What employees think:
"Jerry is a fantastic CEO with tons of enthusiasm and energy. Very personable and cares greatly about his company and people. Couldn't possibly be any nicer of a human being running a $1B company on this earth.” – Riverbed Technology sales (San Francisco)
Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com

* 2014 approval rating: 93%

* Overall rank: 12

What employees think:
"Marc is the best CEO in the business — different for sure — but the best." – Salesforce.com sales (San Francisco)
Larry Page, Google

* 2014 approval rating: 93%

* Overall rank: 10

What employees think:
"Sergey and Larry entertaining you every Thursday discussing whats happening in the company and answering your questions." – Google SRE (Mountain View, CA)"Larry wants us to keep the soul of a startup, even though we no longer are one. In some teams, like the ones I have been on, this has been possible — going from an idea to millions of users on a new product in 2 years." – Google software engineer (location N/A)
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

* 2014 approval rating: 93%

* Overall rank: 9

What employees think:
"Of course the perks are great, but the most important perk is working for a company I truly believe in. Mark is an incredible leader who wants to make the world a better place, and I love doing work for a mission I care about." – Facebook 

Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn

Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn
* 2014 approval rating: 100%

* Overall Rank: 1

What employees think:
"The CEO is what helps spread the culture. He emphasizes culture." – LinkedIn associate Web developer (Mountain View, CA)"Culture of complete transparency. Bi-weekly company all-hands with the CEO." – LinkedIn engineering (Mountain View, CA)

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