Dignity Health, Salesforce, Lyft and other Bay Area companies made it to the Glassdoor ranking of best places to interview in the U.S.

Google and Facebook get a lot of attention in the Bay Area, Glassdoor Director of Communications Scott Dobroski says, but they are just about average when it comes to their job candidate interviews. Instead, lesser known names took the top spots in this year's rankings — and a Bay Area company turned out to be the best place to interview in the nation. Click through our gallery to see who took the top honors. To come up with the “Candidate’s Choice Awards” for best places to interview in the U.S., Glassdoor gathered hundreds of thousands of reviews by anonymous job candidates. Glassdoor primarily considered job candidates’ overall interview experiences, along with their ratings of interview difficulty

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AT&T's (T) DirecTV Receives $3.95B Fine for Deceptive Ad Suit

U.S. telecom behemoth AT&T Inc.’s T DirecTV deceptive advertising lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Mar 2015, is currently on trial in the federal court. The trial became functional from this Monday with opening arguments in U.S. District Court in Oakland, CA, and is scheduled to last 20 days. FTC lawyer Jacob A. Snow clearly pointed out that 33 consumers were deceived by the company during the span of 2007-2015.  As a result of sign-ups and deceptive practices, DirecTV is estimated to have made $3.95 billion.