Yes, KTVU reports that Glassdoor\u2019s new list of the best places to work in California ranks In-N-Out ahead of Nvidia, Apple, Meta, and Google<\/a>. And these are not corporate jobs at In-N-Out\u2019s headquarters in Irvine, California, we\u2019re talking crew jobs at In-N-Out, many of which are largely occupied by high school students. \u00a0<\/p>\n As seen above, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2026 list<\/a> is not of the best places to work in California, it\u2019s of the best places to work in the entire US. And In-N-Out does not come in at Number One nationally \u2014 that distinction belongs to Crew Car Wash<\/a>, another odd choice, a car-wash chain that only exists in Indiana and Minnesota. <\/p>\n But In-N-Out is the top-ranked company that is based in California, and comes in at Number Two nationally, just ahead of Nvidia at Number Three. And yes, Glassdoor knows they are ranking a burger joint ahead of perhaps the most lucrative tech company on earth. <\/p>\n “By outranking Silicon Valley heavyweights like Nvidia, Google, and Apple, In-N-Out has signaled a major shift in the American workforce, where the perceived instability of the tech sector \u2014 marred by \u2018forever layoffs\u2019 and AI-driven anxiety \u2014 is being passed over for the stability and clear upward mobility of the service industry,” as KTVU explains.<\/p>\n And hey, nothing against In-N-Out (except that the company is run by a right-wing lunatic nepo baby<\/a> who pushes her anti-vaxx idiocy on the the public at large<\/a>). In-N-Out pays well over $20 an hour<\/a> even to starting employees, and store managers are routinely paid six-figure annual sums. Compare that to the stingy Shake Shack, who closed California stores<\/a> in response to the state\u2019s $20 fast-food minimum wage law<\/a>.<\/p>\n And maybe Glassdoor really has a point about In-N-Out being a better place to work than the Menlo Park Facebook headquarters. After all, Meta just laid off another 1,000 employees<\/a> after Mark Zuckerberg was dumb enough to blow $77 billion<\/a> on the wildly unsuccessful Metaverse project<\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/glassdorranks.jpg\")
Screenshot via Glassdoor<\/a><\/p>\n