Here Are the Top 100 Companies Everyone Wants to Work
A lot of things determine how well a company does and how happy its employees are; competitive pay, how personally invested employee feel towards the company and work-life balance are all super important. According to this just-released list from LinkedIn of “2015’s Top 100 Most InDemand Employers.” there are some major companies out there who are getting it right.
- Google: 59K employees
- Apple: 104K employees
- Facebook: 11K employees
- Microsoft: 117K employees
- Nike: 33K employees
- The Walt Disney Company: 28K employees
- Tesla: 12K employees
- Proctor & Gamble: 71K employees
- Starbucks: 57K employees
- Shell: 86K employees
- Amazon: 66K employees
- McKinsey & Company: 22K employees
- GE: 60K employees
- Johnson & Johnson: 571K employees
- Netflix: 2K employees
- Bloomberg LP: 16K employees
- Twitter: 4K employees
- Yahoo: 12K employees
- Under Armour: 4K employees
- Adobe: 13K employees
- BP: 64K employees
- Salesforce: 16K employees
- ESPN: 9K employees
- Pfizer: 75K employees
- Unilever: 68K employees
- Cisco: 81K employees
- SAIC: 21K employees
- Fox: 5K employees
- Sephora: 11K employees
- Lockheed Martin: 75K employees
- Samsung Electronics: 54K employees
- Boeing: 95K employees
- The New York Times: 4K employees
- Warner Bros. Entertainment Group and Companies: 6K employees
- BlackRock: 12K employees
- The Coca-Cola Company: 51K employees
- Goldman Sachs: 38K employees
- Electronic Arts: 11K employees
- L-3 Communications: 45K employees
- NBC Universal Media: 15K employees
- HBO: 3K employees
- Forbes: 1K employees
- Hewlett-Packard: 278K employees
- Hilton Worldwide: 32K employees
- Whole Foods Market: 20K employees
- IBM: 411K employees
- Oracle: 139K employees
- ExxonMobil: 40K employees
- Airbnb: 3K employees
- Sony Pictures Entertainment: 6K employees
- Halliburton: 48K employees
- CH2M: 17K employees
- VMware: 16K employees
- Disney ABC Television Group: 3K employees
- Viacom: 8K employees
- NetApp: 12K employees
- Razorfish: 2K employees
- Deloitte: 154K employees
- L’Oreal: 45K employees
- Stryker: 17K employees
- Epsilon: 8K employees
- EMC: 50K employees
- Honeywell: 39K employees
- Suncor Energy: 12K employees
- Ford Motor Company: 80K employees
- Thompson Reuters: 54K employees
- Intel Corporation: 91K employees
- Condé Nast: 4K employees
- Dell: 101K employees
- The Estée Lauder Companies: 4K employees
- Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts: 14K employees
- Chevron: 53K employees
- PepsiCo: 82K employees
- Marriott International: 37K employees
- Live Nation Entertainment: 8K employees
- Abbott: 45K employees
- Uber: 9K employees
- Novartis: 53K employees
- Accenture: 250K employees
- Target: 87K employees
- Discovery Communications: 5K employees
- Nordstrom: 27K employees
- Dropbox: 1K employees
- Verizon: 53K employees
- Pandora: 2K employees
- Jacobs: 65K employees
- J.Crew: 5K employees
- Nestlé: 80K employees
- Baker Hughes: 38K employees
- Coach: 6K employees
- McKesson: 50K employees
- Weatherford: 28K employees
- Sanofi: 48K employees
- Kiewit: 8K employees
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: 1K employees
- Victoria’s Secret: 13K employees
- Medtronic: 35K employees
- Kellogg Company: 14K employees
- The Wall Street Journal: 2K employees
- Eli Lilly and Company: 30K employees
The largest company on this list by far is Johnson & Johnson (yes, the folks who promise you No Tears) with 571K employees. HOLY COW, that’s like a small country. And yet the co still clocks in within the top 15 — at #14 to be exact. On the other hand, the smallest companies to make the list are Forbes, Dropbox and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hats off (and resumes in?) to everyone who made the list.
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(Data via LinkedIn, photo via Getty)