1Apple's Tim Cook falls 45 places in employee CEO ranking

How should you rate a CEO?

Should you look at their company's financial results or their public profile?

Or should you just listen to what their employees think of them? That's the shtick behind Glassdoor's list of 100 Highest Rated US CEOs for 2017.

Anonymous employees leave their reviews on the job site. Then Glassdoor's big data boffins look at it all and give their final scores -- after they've chatted with their proprietary algorithm, of course.

This year's results for large companies were announced on Tuesday, and 26 tech company CEOs made it into the elite class. Some, though, might be moved by one particular result: Apple CEO Tim Cook fell from a lofty No. 8 last year to No. 53 this year.

What might this mean? Should there be conniptions in Cupertino? Should there be a smashing of iPads and a tossing of dongles? Has the pressure of trying to make a global company embrace creativity become a little much?

Those who enjoy tweaking the great and the good of tech might be moved by the fact that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has leaped into the elite bracket -- for the first time ever -- at No. 29.

Still, when you look at the numbers, there isn't that much difference between the No. 1 CEO -- Clorox's Benno Dorer -- and Cook. While Dorer enjoys a 99 percent approval rating from members of his staff that left anonymous reviews, Cook merely has a 93 percent approval rating.

Yes, 7 percent of supposed Apple employees had the courage or the incipient madness to give Cook a negative review. Don't they know Apple's security police has a legendary reputation for thoroughness?

I think this is pretty sad for him, but that is just my opinion.

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