Source: Glassdoor

RealNetworks ranks among the worst places to work, somehow even getting a poorer employee satisfaction score than embattled Washington Mutual, according to a survey released this week by Glassdoor.com.

Real, which laid off 7.5 percent of its staff earlier this month, ranked 45th on the Glassdoor list. At least it wasn't DHL, which had the worst employee satisfaction rating. Meanwhile, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser boasted an approval rating of just 27 percent. That was better than WaMu's Alan Fishman, whose approval rating in Glassdoor stood at 0 percent.

Glassdoor didn't just focus on the negative. It also released a list of the top places to work, a list that was led by General Mills, Bain & Co., Netflix and Adobe.  The only Seattle-based company on the list was Nordstrom, whose CEO Blake Nordstrom had an approval rating of 75 percent.

Founded by former Expedia executives (including Zillow.com's Rich Barton), Sausalito, Calif.-based Glassdoor has developed an online tool by which employees can rate and review their employers. The ranking was determined by input of employees, with Glassdoor compiling the ranking based on a 20-question survey about workplace factors such as compensation, employee morale, senior leadership and communication.