Our Developers Ranked Us: Full Scale Named a 2026 Best Workplace in Technology in Southeast Asia
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Great Place To Work just published its Southeast Asia Best Workplaces in Technology list for 2026, and Full Scale is on it at No. 15 in the medium company category.
What I love most about this one is who decided it. Our developers did.
The only way onto the list is for the people who actually work at your company to say, confidentially, that it’s a great place to work. Nobody in leadership gets a vote, and nobody in leadership can lobby for it.
So this post is partly an announcement and mostly a thank-you note.
The ranking comes straight from the team
Great Place To Work builds these lists primarily from its Trust Index survey, where employees respond to 60 statements about their actual experience: leadership, fairness, respect, pride, growth, and whether they trust the people running the place. The answers are confidential, so nobody is telling the boss what he wants to hear, and no panel of judges ever sees a slide deck from our marketing team.
For the 2026 Southeast Asia technology list, that meant more than 58,200 survey responses representing over 219,200 employees across the region. From all of that, 20 companies made each size category.
Nobody can buy a spot on this list, and it turns out nobody can charm their way onto it either. Believe me, I would have tried.
This is a regional list, and the company on it is good company
The benchmark on this one is every leading technology employer across Southeast Asia, measured across multiple markets and employee populations, not a Philippines-only field. That’s what separates it from a country-level award.
The quick facts:
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| The list | Southeast Asia Best Workplaces in Technology 2026 |
| Our rank | No. 15, medium category (100-999 employees) |
| How it’s judged | Confidential Trust Index employee surveys, plus regional presence |
| Who else is on it | Cisco tops the large category; Adobe and Bosch made the list too |
Our developers’ survey answers put a staffing company from the Philippines on the same list as Cisco and Adobe.
We won a workplace award without a mandatory workplace
My favorite thing about this Great Place To Work ranking: Full Scale has a real office in Cebu, and almost nobody is required to set foot in it. Our engineers work remotely from across the Philippines.
So the “workplace” our team rated is the everyday stuff, not a building with good snacks: whether your manager actually helps you grow, whether training is real or a checkbox, and whether leadership tells you the truth when the news is bad. The training one I can prove: our Spartan Training Academy runs AI upskilling for all 350+ of our engineers, with live sessions multiple times a month. That’s the workplace we’ve been building since 2018, and it’s the one our remote work culture runs on.
Culture turns out to be portable. Ping-pong tables are not.
Why this matters if you’re a client
Most people reading this blog aren’t job hunting. You’re deciding who to trust with your product. So let me translate.
A team that loves where it works is a team that stays, and a team that stays keeps your product knowledge in place. Our developer retention runs 93%+ in a country where call-center and outsourcing turnover is famously brutal. This Best Workplaces ranking comes from the same root: 95% of our employees say Full Scale is a great place to work, against 65% at a typical company in the Philippines.
Those are two different numbers measuring two different things, but they rhyme.
People who are treated well don’t leave, and when your dedicated developers stay on your team for years, you stop paying the tax of re-onboarding someone new every six months.
This also isn’t a one-off. We’ve been Great Place to Work Certified in the Philippines two years running, and we’ve made the Inc. 5000 list four years in a row on the growth side.
To our team in the Philippines
This one belongs to you.
Thank you for the honest survey answers, for the work you put in for our clients every day, and for building a culture strong enough to show up in a regional ranking. Awards come from the outside, but what they measure was built by you, one standup and one code review at a time.
We’ll keep working to deserve it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Southeast Asia Best Workplaces in Technology list?
It’s Great Place To Work’s annual regional ranking of technology employers across Southeast Asia. The 2026 list recognizes 20 companies in each of three size categories (small, medium, and large), ranked primarily on confidential employee feedback from the Trust Index survey, which drew over 58,200 responses representing more than 219,200 employees across the region.
Where did Full Scale rank?
Full Scale ranked No. 15 in the medium company category (100 to 999 employees) on the 2026 list. We’re listed under our Philippine entity, Full Scale Teams PH, Inc.
Is the Best Workplaces list something a company can pay for?
You pay to participate, not to win. Companies apply and pay Great Place To Work to run the certification survey, but the ranking itself is decided by what employees say in those confidential responses. A company with bad survey scores doesn’t make the list no matter what it spent. That’s why I trust this one more than most awards.
How is this different from Full Scale’s Great Place to Work certification?
The certification is a country-level bar: enough employees rate the company highly on the Trust Index survey and the company is certified for the year. The Best Workplaces list is a competitive ranking on top of that, where certified companies across all of Southeast Asia are benchmarked against each other and only the top 20 per size category make it. We’ve held the certification two years running, and this year we made the ranked list on top of it.
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