Great Place To Work placed the offshore software company No. 15 among medium-sized technology employers across the region, based on the direct feedback of its Philippine-based workforce.
— Full Scale, an offshore software development company that builds dedicated engineering teams in the Philippines, has been named one of the 2026 Best Workplaces in Technology in Southeast Asia by Great Place To Work. Listed as Full Scale Teams PH, Inc., the company placed No. 15 in the medium company category, which covers organizations with 100 to 999 employees and recognizes 20 companies across the region.
The ranking is built entirely on what employees say, not on what the company claims. Great Place To Work compiled the list from more than 58,200 survey responses representing over 219,200 employees across Southeast Asia. For Full Scale, the result reflects the experience of its engineering workforce of more than 350 developers, nearly all of whom work remotely from across the Philippines.
The numbers behind Full Scale’s placement stand out. Ninety-five percent of its employees rated it a great place to work, against a Philippine average of 65 percent for a typical company. The company also reports a developer retention rate above 93 percent, well above the norm for offshore arrangements, where annual turnover commonly runs much higher.
The Philippine companies on the list
The Philippines was the most represented country on the 2026 Best Workplaces in Technology in Southeast Asia list, which spans Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Homegrown firms appeared next to the local operations of some of the largest technology employers in the world, a sign of how deep the country’s tech sector now runs.
The companies recognized with Philippine operations, by size category, were:
Large (1,000 or more employees)
- Cisco
- Carelon Global Solutions Philippines
- Insight
- Genpact
- Visa
- Concentrix Philippines
- Capital One Philippines
- Cognizant
- Lexmark Research and Development Corporation
Medium (100 to 999 employees)
- Arcanys
- Atlassian
- Kollab
- One CoreDev IT, Inc. (CORE)
- Lingaro (Philippines), Inc.
- Etrading Software – Manila
- CoDev
- ST Telemedia Global Data Centres
- AGS Health Private Limited
- Full Scale Teams PH, Inc. (No. 15)
- Westcon-Comstor
Small (10 to 99 employees)
- Tech One Global Phils., Inc.
- Karbon
- XP Plus Solutions Inc.
- Noventiq
A recognition rooted in the Philippines
For a company whose entire engineering base is Filipino, the award is less a corporate milestone than a statement about the people who do the work. Full Scale’s engineers are software developers, quality assurance specialists, and designers based in cities across the country, hired to work as permanent members of US client teams rather than as contractors assigned to short-term projects.
That distinction is the reason the culture holds together across an ocean and a 12-hour time difference. Traditional outsourcing treats offshore staff as interchangeable resources billed by the hour. Full Scale’s model treats them as employees with a long-term career, which is what the survey scores measure: whether people feel trusted, supported, and invested in over time.
The recognition follows a pattern for the company. Full Scale has been named a Great Place To Work Certified company in the Philippines for two consecutive years, and it has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies four years running. The through-line is the same in each case: sustained growth driven by a Filipino workforce that stays.
What a distributed company does instead of perks
Full Scale runs almost entirely remote. Its engineers work from home across the Philippines, and its office in Cebu is optional rather than the center of the operation. That removes the physical trappings most companies lean on to signal culture and forces the question of what actually holds a distributed team together.
The company’s answer has been to invest in the work itself. Its internal training program, the Spartan Training Academy, runs live sessions multiple times a month to keep engineers current on modern development practices, including artificial intelligence coding tools. The idea is that a career that keeps growing is worth more to an engineer than a ping-pong table, and the retention figures suggest the bet is paying off.
“We built this company on the idea that Filipino engineers deserve real careers, not gigs,” said Matt Watson, founder of Full Scale. “Ranking among the best workplaces in the region tells me the people who would know agree.”
The broader picture for Philippine tech
The list arrives as the Philippines continues to strengthen its position as one of the world’s leading destinations for technology work. The country pairs a large and growing pool of STEM graduates with consistently high English proficiency and close cultural alignment with US business practices, a combination that has drawn technology companies to the market for two decades.
What has changed is the kind of work on offer. The sector’s early growth centered on voice and back-office support. Today a meaningful share of it is specialized software engineering, and recognitions like this one measure not just that the jobs exist but that they are good jobs worth keeping. Companies that pursue offshore software development increasingly ask about retention and culture, not only cost, because a team that stays together ships better products.
Full Scale credits its placement to that shift. The company’s position is that the Philippines has long been able to compete on the quality of its engineers, and that the employers who treat those engineers as long-term team members are the ones who see it reflected in both retention and results.
About Full Scale
Full Scale is an offshore software development company founded in 2018 that helps technology companies build dedicated engineering teams in the Philippines. The company employs more than 350 engineers, has placed over 1,000 developers with US clients, and maintains a developer retention rate above 93 percent. It offers dedicated developers and full engineering teams across stacks including .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, and React, along with quality assurance and design services. Full Scale has been named a 2026 Best Workplace in Technology in Southeast Asia by Great Place To Work, a Great Place To Work Certified company in the Philippines for two consecutive years, and a member of the Inc. 5000 four years running. It was founded by Matt Watson, a four-time technology founder who previously co-founded VinSolutions and founded Stackify.
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