Bangalore: CEOs are at helm of company processes— as administrative in charge of total management of the organization, the post seeks to call tough decisions, which may result in tough working environment. So CEOs who maintained subtle balance between tough calls and employee acceptance of their ways, made it to this list of 10 most liked tech CEOs. The list is compiled by rediff business, on the basis of Glassdoor, a career review and rating site, on surveying employees at the top tech companies to the approval ratings of their respective chiefs.

#10 Jeff Bezos

Company: Amazon

Approval rating: 79 per cent

Global ranking: 10

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos founded Amazon.com in a garage, leaving the well paying job at New York City hedge fund. He wanted to make it big on rapid growth in internet and Supreme Court ruling that online retailers don't have to collect sales taxes in states where they lack a physical presence, and he did made it big. 

The company was listed as 100 Fastest Growing Companies, Fortune, 2009 and World's Best Companies by BusinessWeek, 2009.

#9 Meg Whitman

Company: Hewlett-Packard

Approval rating: 80 per cent

Global ranking: 9

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. Previously she served as an executive in The Walt Disney Company where she was vice president of strategic planning throughout the 1980s.

In the 1990s, she served as an executive for DreamWorks, Procter & Gamble, and Hasbro. Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from 1998 to 2008. She oversaw expansion of the company over her 10 years presence. The company grew from 30 employees and $4 million annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion annual revenue.