You, too, are missing the point.
I took a graduate level course in survey construction. It is obvious to me, based on the insight gained from that course, that the point of the survey was NOT to single out which companies were best for any single segment of the workforce (males, females, whites, blacks, citizens, non-citizens, blind, deaf, crippled, war vets, animal lovers, wife beaters, etc., etc.), but merely to survey the general, currently employed workforce of companies to determine their state of satisfaction and thereby rank companies.
If I were to commission a survey (using someone else's money), I might want to know some of the things Steel Maiden asked in post 2. I'd also like to factor in the profitability versus stock price of the companies. I'd like to know the disparity between the compensaton for the CEO and the average employee. I'd like to know the gross income generated per employee and the net profit per employee. I'd like some way to know the culture of each company. (I've seen some VERY paternalistic privately held companies where the employees all professed to be happy, but an outside observer might remark they all seemed like Stepford wives - either robots or brainwashed!)
Yep. I'd like to know all that, BUT nobody is going to pay me to run that survey, so the discussion on all those things is moot.
What I DO want to know is whether low scores on a Lickert scale on these questions listed above are valid indicators, in each Cove reader's opinion, of whether a company is good to work for. I expect a clever job seeker might want to know a lot more, but, would you consider a company where the employees give good grades on these points is a good starting place to look for a job (i.e. to narrow your search?)