Recently, LinkedIn had shared its annual list of companies that most people wish to work at, based on the three main aspects: “interest in a company’s jobs, interest in a company’s brand and employees, and employee retention.” Once you take a look at the list, you’ll find that they’re absolutely dominated by tech companies. The entire top 7 companies on the list are tech companies.
With so much interest on these tech companies, you can probably tell that they’re pretty good at what they do, and that they treat their employees right. Word then gets around to job seekers being recommended this or that company by friends or the media, hence increasing the number of people who wish to work there, which brings us to this list.
So, with that in mind, here are the top 14 best tech companies most people want to work at:
14) Oracle
Source: Job Seekers India
HQ: Redwood City, California
Number of global employees: 135,000
What they do: Oracle mainly focuses on developing database and enterprise software, but also offer cloud applications and engineered systems
13) Adobe
Source: Compensation Cafe
Headquarters: San Jose, California
Number of global employees: 16,500
What they do: Adobe creates cloud-based software for graphic design, photo and video editing, and photography and marketing.
LinkedIn side-note: “Adobe has some ‘out of the box’ job titles, like Principal Artist-in-Residence, a People Scientist, and a Vice President of Creativity.”
12) Twitter
Source: RT
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Number of global employees: 3,500
What they do: Twitter is a social networking platform, mainly for microblogging with “tweets” and messages.
11) Workday
Source: Business Insider, Workday/Glassdoor
Headquarters: Pleasanton, California
Number of global employees: 6,600
What they do: Workday focuses on creating and selling cloud-based software for payroll and human resources.
LinkedIn side-note: Workday is doing some heavy hiring this year. “Workday tells LinkedIn it’s hired nearly 2,000 people in the past year and anticipates hiring another 2,200 in the coming year. Many of the openings are for software engineers.”
10) Dell
Source: Business Insider, Dell/Glassdoor
Headquarters: Round Rock, Texas
Number of global employees: 145,000
What they do: Dell is one of the world’s largest computer tech companies. They mainly focus on creating and manufacturing computer hardware.
9) Netflix
Source: LA Now
Headquarters: Los Gatos, California
Number of global employees: 3,200
What they do: Netflix is a streaming website that allows subscribers access to their endless database of licensed shows and movies and series, along with their own original shows, all for a small monthly fee.
8) Airbnb
Source: Fortune
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Number of global employees: 2,000
What they do: They provide a platform for users to rent out their own homes, apartments, and living spaces to tourists and travelers.
7) Apple
Source: Business Insider, City of Cupertino
Headquarters: Cupertino, California
Number of global employees: 110,000
What they do: This popular tech giant produces one of the world’s most popular consumer electronics (like the iPhone, iPad, and MacBook). They also have their own applications, music, and other software platforms as well as hardware.
6) Tesla
Source: Tesla
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
Number of global employees: 30,000
What they do: Tesla is an ever growing auto manufacturer that focuses on creating electric vehicles, energy storage, and solar panels.
LinkedIn side-note: Tesla has a lot of job openings. “The company has nearly 2,500 open positions globally, including titles like Energy Advisor and Thermal Systems Aerodynamicist.”
5) Uber
Source: Business Insider, Glassdoor/Uber
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Number of global employees: 12,000
What they do: Uber is a ride-sharing platform app that helps those who are struggling to get a taxi ride anywhere. They now also have food delivery services.
LinkedIn side-note: Despite the recent scandals that involve the company, LinkedIn explains why they’re still ranking so high up on the list. “The company moved up one spot as job seekers continued to flood the unicorn with applications and professionals researched employees in record numbers. Unique job appliers nearly doubled in February from a year earlier, though subsequent data points to some signs of weakness.”
4) Salesforce
Source: Investopedia
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Number of global employees: 25,000
What they do: Salesforce is a company that offers cloud computing software for sales, marketing, and customer support software to companies.
3) Facebook
Source: IBTimes UK
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California
Number of global employees: 17,000
What they do: Facebook is the largest social media platform, with over 2 billion users monthly.
LinkedIn side-note: The most in-demand job areas in Facebook are “software engineering, infrastructure, machine learning, data analytics and marketing.”
2) Amazon
Source: Pulse
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington
Number of global employees: 341,400
What they do: Already starting out as one of the largest online retailers in the world, the company is now expanding into the realms of fashion, food delivery, online advertising, and artificial intelligence, and into the entertainment industry as well, producing TV shows and movies of their own.
1) Alphabet
Source: Business Insider, Adam Berry / Stringer / Getty Images
Headquarters: Mountain View, California
Number of global employees: 72,000
What they do: Being the parent company of the tech giant Google, the company is massive, with several different areas of focus, depending on the company/subsidiary of Alphabet you’re working for. These include Google Fiber, X, Verily, the self-driving car company Waymo, and of course, the search engine itself.
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