Top Companies 2019: Where the U.S. wants to work now

The 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies list reveals the 50 companies where Americans want to work — and stick around once they’re in — now.

Every year, our editors and data scientists parse billions of actions taken by LinkedIn members around the world to uncover the companies that are attracting the most attention from jobseekers and then hanging onto that talent. The data-driven approach looks at what members are doing — not just saying — in their search for fulfilling careers. The result of that data is Top Companies, our 4th annual ranking of the most sought-after companies today.

As always, we analyze U.S. members’ anonymized actions across four main pillars: interest in the company, engagement with the company’s employees, job demand and employee retention. (We exclude LinkedIn and LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, from all LinkedIn Lists. You can dig into the details of our methodology at the bottom of the article.)

You can also check out the Top Companies in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and the UK. See who made the cut and join the conversation using #LinkedInTopCompanies.

Here are this year’s 50 Top Companies in the U.S.

Company insights, such as skills and top locations, are sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and reflect only employees on LinkedIn. We use headcounts provided by the company whenever possible. More details below.

Alphabet is the parent company of Google, YouTube, Nest and others.

Global headcount: 98,800  | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Seattle | Fastest-growing skills: Data Structures, R, Matlab | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Information Technology, Program and Project Management | Recent changes: Google is investing $13 billion to expand its U.S. footprint and by the end of this year will have a presence in 24 states. “2019 marks the second year in a row we’ll be growing faster outside of the Bay Area than in it,” wrote CEO Sundar Pichai in a blog post.

Hear More: Google chef and employee #53 shares his story on Hello Monday.

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Facebook is the parent company of Instagram, Oculus VR and WhatsApp.

Global headcount: 36,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Seattle, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Data Structures, Pattern Recognition, R | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, IT, Program and Project Management | What may surprise you: Job candidates should be prepared to answer the social media giant’s most common interview question, Facebook tells LinkedIn: On your very best day at work — the day you come home and think you have the best job in the world — what did you do that day?

Read more: How Facebook is prioritizing privacy.

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Amazon is the parent company of Whole Foods, Audible, Zappos and others.

Headcount in the U.S.: 250,000 | Top U.S. locations: Seattle, San Francisco, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Solution Architecture, AWS, Data Structures | Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Engineering, Sales | What may surprise you: Amazon raised its minimum wage in November to $15 an hour for all employees, whether part-time, full-time, seasonal or temporary. It didn’t stop there: the company also expanded its 401(k) contributions to all Amazonians, including part-time and seasonal workers, starting on Day 1.

Read more: Why Amazon and other Big Tech are hiring for health care skills.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 22,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Indianapolis, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Data Analysis, Cold Calling, Sales Management | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, Business Development | What may surprise you: Salesforce has over 4,000 open roles across the U.S. and not all require a college degree, such as these openings for a senior marketing specialist and senior lead content writer.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 84,900 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago | Fastest-growing skills: Python, Adobe Photoshop, Troubleshooting | Job functions with the most new hires: Consulting, Accounting, Business Development | What may surprise you: Employees are encouraged to think like entrepreneurs — and can even pitch their business ideas to secure funding from Deloitte. In the U.S., some 20 cross-industry, marketable ideas have been implemented through its Startup Deloitte program.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 10,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, New York City, Chicago | Fastest-growing skills: jQuery, R, Cloud Computing | Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Engineering, Sales | What may surprise you: Internal mobility is encouraged at Uber. In 2018 alone, over 3,000 employees transferred to a different role, a third of whom went into a totally different job function and 350 of those employees moved internationally, Uber tells LinkedIn.

Read more: Uber’s biggest deal ever.

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Global headcount.: 132,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, New York City, Austin | Fastest-growing skills: Matlab, Machine Learning, Python | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, IT, Sales | What may surprise you: Apple plans to create 20,000 new jobs over the next five years across its existing campuses, and will invest $1 billion to build an all-new campus in Austin.

Read more: Apple launches original video and more.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 3,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Portland, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Adobe InDesign CC, Agile Methodologies, User Experience Design | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Arts and Design, Human Resources | What may surprise you: Airbnb encourages its employees to get out of the office and into the world with $500 in employee travel credits each quarter. Employees can roll over their balance with no cap on its value.

Read more: Airbnb to buy HotelTonight.

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Global headcount: 137,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Boston, Denver | Fastest-growing skills: NetSuite, Oracle Cloud, Python | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Sales, IT | What may surprise you: About 90% of Oracle's employees are located beyond the company's San Francisco Bay Area headquarters, according to LinkedIn data — this has created hiring surges both at home and abroad, from India and Romania to U.S. metro areas like Austin and Los Angeles.

Read more: How Oracle became a top destination for recent graduates.

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Dell Technologies is the parent company of Dell, Dell EMC, VMware, RSA Security and others.

Global headcount: 145,000 | Top U.S. locations: Austin, Boston, San Francisco | Fastest-growing skills: Data Analysis, HTML, Recruiting | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: Dell — newly public again after 5 years as a private company and revamped after acquiring EMC and VMware — has a welcoming attitude toward remote work. It estimates its “work-wherever” policies have saved U.S. employees 136 million miles of travel a year.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 5,700 | Top U.S. locations: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Publicity, Social Media Marketing, Digital Marketing | Job functions with the most new hires: Media and Communication, Engineering, Operations | What may surprise you: As streaming competition heats up, Netflix is trying to move beyond being known as a tech company and instead position itself as a content company with significant cultural impact — even the company’s earnings reports frequently mention the Instagram follower growth of its young talent.

Read more: How one Netflix employee transformed video quality globally.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 37,500 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham, Dallas-Fort Worth | Fastest-growing skills: Switching, Data Analysis, Network Administration | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, IT, Sales | What may surprise you: Cisco’s executive team has made an increased effort to touch on issues like mental health, sexual harassment and conscious culture — CEO Chuck Robbins made news after sending a company-wide email addressing the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain in June.

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WeWork rebranded itself as The We Company this year, encompassing its flagship brand and newer WeLive and WeGrow.

Headcount in the U.S.: 6,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles | Fastest-growing skills: Construction Management, Construction, Contract Management | Job functions with the most new hires: Community and Social Services, Operations, Engineering | What may surprise you: WeWork went to new lengths last summer to reduce its environmental impact when it decided to ban meat from all corporate events and employee expense reports.

Read more: The case for WeWork.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 1,800 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Los Angeles, Boston | Fastest-growing skills: Fundraising, Adobe Photoshop, Video Production | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Arts and Design, Sales | What may surprise you: Spotify is doubling down on podcasts after acquiring Gimlet Media and Anchor earlier this year. The company has already become the second-biggest podcasting platform over the past two years and is now hoping to expand its reach with more original content, says CEO Daniel Ek.

Read more: Spotify’s latest podcast company purchase.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 184,000 | Top U.S. locations: Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles | Fastest-growing skills: Java, Adobe Illustrator, JavaScript | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Operations, Engineering | What may surprise you: The company expanded its downtown Philadelphia campus, opening its Comcast Technology Center. The all-new building, which is now Philly’s tallest, houses some 4,000 tech-focused workers, including engineers and software developers, as well as local NBC10 and Telemundo 62 studios.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 35,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Reno, Los Angeles | Fastest-growing skills: Retail Sales, C, Merchandising | Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Engineering, Support | What may surprise you: Workers are excited about a culture that quickly turns ideas into reality, which has been a draw for young jobseekers, according to the Wall Street Journal. That enthusiasm extends throughout the company where 89% of Tesla employees believe their work makes a positive impact on the world.

Read more: Tesla unveils new electric SUV.

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The Walt Disney Company is the parent company of ESPN, ABC, Pixar and others.

Global headcount: 201,000 | Top U.S. locations: Los Angeles, Orlando, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Data Analysis, Java, Python | Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Business Development, Media and Communication | What may surprise you: Disney is among the few companies that will cover education costs — and not only for full-time workers. Disney now pays full tuition upfront for part-time workers who are earning their high school diploma, college degree or are going back to school to learn a new skill.

Read more: Disney completes purchase of Fox assets.

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Global headcount: 204,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth | Fastest-growing skills: Economics, Java, HTML | Job functions with the most new hires: Finance, Sales, Support | What may surprise you: Some 17,800 Bank of America employees have already enrolled in the bank's national “empathy” training program, which teaches them how to personalize a customer’s experience according to life stages such as early adulthood, parenting and retirement.

Read more: How banks are attracting top talent.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 4,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Algorithms, Machine Learning, C | Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Engineering, Community and Social Services | What may surprise you: In its IPO filing, Lyft — which debuted Friday on the Nasdaq Stock Market, raising $2.3 billion in its listing — declared a goal of having a majority of its rides delivered by its own “low-cost, scaled autonomous vehicle network” within 10 years.

Read more: Lyft’s first day on the public markets.

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Global headcount: 57,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles | Fastest-growing skills: Retirement Services, Social Media Marketing, Adobe Photoshop | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Support, IT | What may surprise you: Roughly 1,400 ADP volunteers in 15 U.S. locations recently celebrated packaging their one millionth meal for Rise Against Hunger, one of the company’s 1,500 global charitable initiatives.

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Global headcount: 36,600 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Salt Lake City, Dallas-Fort Worth | Fastest-growing skills: CSS, Python, Adobe Photoshop | Job functions with the most new hires: Finance, Business Development, IT | What may surprise you: After the bank threw its traditional dress code requirements out the window to help attract engineers, last month it went a step further and extended a “firm wide flexible dress code” for all employees.

Read more: Goldman is doubling down on diversity.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 66,600 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Dallas/Fort Worth, Tampa/St. Petersburg | Fastest-growing skills: Economics, HTML, JavaScript | Job functions with the most new hires: Finance, Business Development, IT | What may surprise you: Citi was the first U.S. company to share its median gender pay gap globally — despite unfavorable results: Female employees currently earn 29% less than men. It’s now buckling down to close the gap, aiming to increase female representation in roles from assistant vice president through managing director to 40% by 2021.

Read more: How banks are attracting top talent.

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Global headcount: 1,200 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, New York City, Denver | Fastest-growing skills: Analytical Skills, Consulting, Human Resources | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Human Resources, IT | What may surprise you: More than 100 employees have trained and mentored incarcerated individuals at San Quentin State Prison, part of the Last Mile coding program. In August, Slack also started Next Chapter, a yearlong initiative to hire three Last Mile grads as quality-engineering apprentices at Slack.

Read more: Slack preps for a direct listing on the NYSE.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 11,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Lehi, Utah | Fastest-growing skills: Data Analysis, Market Research, jQuery | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Sales, IT | What may surprise you: On top of unlimited vacation, paid holidays and two weeks of company shutdowns, U.S. employees with five years under their belt at Adobe can take a 20-day sabbatical. Ten-year veterans get a 25-day sabbatical, and each following five years of employment accrues a sabbatical of 30 business days.

Read more: How one Adobe employee became famous among designers.

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Global headcount: 258,700 | Top U.S. locations: Charlotte, San Francisco, Minneapolis-St. Paul | Fastest-growing skills: Teller Operations, Operational Risk, Data Analysis | Job functions with the most new hires: Finance, IT, Support | Road to recovery: After dealing with years of high-profile scandals, the embattled bank continues to take steps to show that it’s on the path to reform, including hiring executives in its risk division, implementing a major rebranding and removing unrealistic sales targets.

Read more: Wells Fargo shakes up its leadership.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 22,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle | Fastest-growing skills: Concur, Data Analysis, Customer Experience | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, IT, Engineering | What may surprise you: SAP has set a goal to have at least 28% women in leadership roles by 2020 and 30% by 2022 (roughly 11% of tech execs in Silicon Valley are female). The enterprise software company already achieved its goal of reaching 25% by 2017.

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Global headcount: 135,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco | Fastest-growing skills: Matlab, Data Analysis, Laboratory Skills | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Research, Operations | What may surprise you: J&J is among the dwindling number of companies that still offer pensions to new employees, who become vested after five years. This is on top of a 401(k) plan, which J&J matches at 75 cents to the dollar or up to 6% of a worker’s salary.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 129,800 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Washington, D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth | Fastest-growing skills: Network Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Microsoft SQL Server | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: Its new operational headquarters in New Jersey has an indoor taco truck, a mile-long outdoor track and even an adjacent 170-room private hotel just for Verizon employees and business partners.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 1,500 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, New York City, Salt Lake City | Fastest-growing skills: Media Planning, Data Structures, Matlab | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Sales, Entrepreneurship | In the news: Pinterest, which is expected to seek a valuation of at least $12 billion, made its IPO filing public last month. The company — which is expected to start trading this month — saw its revenue jump 50% year-over-year to more than $750 million last year.

Read more: How one Pinterest engineer transformed its official programming language.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 58,100 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, San Francisco, Chicago | Fastest-growing skills: Python, Java, Adobe Photoshop | Job functions with the most new hires: Accounting, Finance, IT | What may surprise you: PwC will help employees pay down student loan debt: PwC’ers can get up to $1,200 a year toward student loans for up to six years.

Read more: How one employee got PwC to expand its surrogacy benefits.

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IPG is the parent company of McCann Worldgroup, MullenLowe Group and others.

Global headcount: 54,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Detroit, Chicago | Fastest-growing skills: Instagram, Google Adwords, Adobe Photoshop | Job functions with the most new hires: Arts and Design, Sales, Business Development | What may surprise you: IPG comprises 97 global marketing and communications agencies, each with its own unique office culture. One of its biggest agencies, IPG Mediabrands, employs office hot-desking — none of its 12,000 workers have an assigned workspace. Everyone finds a new desk (and neighbors) every day.

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Global headcount: 2,300 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Austin, Seattle | Fastest-growing skills: Adobe Creative Suite, Interaction Design, Data Mining | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Sales, Human Resources | What may surprise you: Dropbox’s culture can be summed up in one sweet image: a smiling cupcake. The illustration is one of the company’s five core values — meant to emphasize the importance of surprise and delight both at the office and in its product.

Read more: Dropbox makes its biggest acquisition yet.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 47,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C. | Fastest-growing skills: Python, Java, HTML | Job functions with the most new hires: Accounting, Consulting, Quality Assurance | What may surprise you: EY provides working parents and their university-bound children with college coaches to help them select schools, prepare applications, handle interviews and figure out the best way to pay for college.

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Publicis Groupe is the parent company of Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas, Publicis Sapient and others.

Global headcount: 80,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles | Fastest-growing skills: Ad Serving, Adobe Indesign CC, Fundraising | Job functions with the most new hires: Marketing, Sales, Arts and Design | What may surprise you: Comprising 23 creative agencies, Publicis Groupe streamlined its operations by moving all of its agencies across six major U.S. cities — New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and San Francisco — into shared offices.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 600* | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, New York City, Portland | Fastest-growing skills: Go, Algorithms, iOS | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, IT, Human Resources | What may surprise you: Employees can choose to be paid partially or entirely in bitcoin; roughly 40% of staff have some portion of their paycheck allocated to cryptocurrency.

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Global headcount: 3,900 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, New York City, Denver | Fastest-growing skills: Data Structures, Data Science, R | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Human Resources, IT | What may surprise you: Twitter hit a significant milestone in 2018 — it turned its first annual profit. The social media company has gained traction in monetizable daily active users, meaning users that see ads.

Read more: Twitter opens up about ad numbers.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 51,900 | Top U.S. locations: Portland, San Francisco, Phoenix | Fastest-growing skills: Matlab, Cadence, Materials Science | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Operations, IT | What may surprise you: The company has over 2,600 jobs open around the world. While the most in-demand roles are within engineering, the company is also on the hunt for people with experience in social media marketing, technology sales and beyond.

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WPP is the parent company of Ogilvy, Young & Rubicam, GroupM and others.

Headcount in the U.S.: 24,000 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles | Fastest-growing skills: Ad Serving, Customer Satisfaction, Salesforce.com | Job functions with the most new hires: Marketing, Sales, Business Development | What may surprise you: Newly appointed CEO Mark Read is looking to simplify and strengthen WPP by regrouping its more than 160 agencies into a smaller number of overarching brands. Read said he hopes “fewer, stronger, more integrated” agencies will advance the company, which he said has been “too slow” to change in the past.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 3,200 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Washington D.C., Dallas/Fort Worth | Fastest-growing skills: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Web Development, Data Analysis | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: Splunk is the fast-growing machine data company, helping companies find answers in their masses of big data. That’s not the only way Splunk goes big — it’s among the highest-paying Bay Area tech employers with a median total compensation across all employees of about $256,370 per year.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 97,000 | Top U.S. locations: Houston, Cincinnati, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: SolidWorks (Computer Program), Aviation, AutoCAD (Software Application) | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Operations, IT | What may surprise you: GE has its hand in everything from energy to health care. The long-standing conglomerate said 2019 will be a “reset year” as it looks to revamp its power-related businesses while building on its strong growth within aviation.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 1,700* | Top U.S. locations: New York City, San Francisco, Phoenix | Fastest-growing skills: Software Development, SQL, Java | Job functions with the most new hires: Operations, Media and Communication, Engineering | What may surprise you: The MLB recently launched its Take The Field program and the Katy Feeney Leadership Symposium, both of which are efforts to increase gender diversity on the baseball field by hiring more female umpires, scouts and coaches.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 1,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham, Austin | Fastest-growing skills: Program Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Finance | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: In August, the cloud data management company launched Rubrik Beyond Work, which aims to dedicate 1% of employee time annually to giving back. The first official RBW event, a free-throw fundraiser at VMworld, raised $30,000.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 1,700 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Austin, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: IT Strategy, Software Development Life Cycle, jQuery | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: Box is on the hunt for jobseekers with two key qualities: excellent collaboration skills and a growth mindset. “People with a growth mindset believe that even if they don’t know the answer, they can work to figure it out,” says Tiffany Stevenson, Box’s global head of talent.

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Global headcount: 253,500  | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Columbus, Chicago | Fastest-growing skills: Python, JavaScript, C++ | Job functions with the most new hires: Finance, Engineering, Business Development | What may surprise you: JPMorgan has been aggressively preparing for the next generation of banking: the company invests $10.8 billion a year to fund a team of 50,000 technologists. That’s more than Twitter and Facebook combined. Its latest innovation: JPM Coin, the first-ever cryptocurrency created by a U.S. bank.

Read more: How banks are attracting top talent.

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Global headcount: 73,100 | Top U.S. locations: Portland, New York City, Memphis | Fastest-growing skills: Python, JavaScript, SQL | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Media and Communication, Operations | What may surprise you: Over the past year, Nike made moves to create a more welcoming office for women and minorities while increasing accountability across the organization. This includes launching an anonymous hotline for employees, implementing unconscious bias training and providing 10,000 managers with additional mandatory training. It also brought on its first chief diversity and inclusion officer.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 5,000 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle | Fastest-growing skills: User Interface Design, Data Analysis, Product Development | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Sales, IT | What may surprise you: ServiceNow has been growing rapidly, increasing sales by more than 30% last year with the same expected this year. No surprise, it’s having to hire at a rapid clip: it has more than 900 new roles in everything from content strategy to executive recruitment.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 8,800 | Top U.S. locations: New York City, Chicago, San Francisco | Fastest-growing skills: JavaScript, Python, HTML | Job functions with the most new hires: Research, IT, Engineering | What may surprise you: The Take Time program gives consultants an extra five to 10 weeks off each year (beyond vacation time) to pursue personal interests and passions, such as performing in a play in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival or reporting on figure skating at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Read more: How one McKinsey employee landed her ideal gig abroad.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 2,300 | Top U.S. locations: Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago | Fastest-growing skills: Python, Programming, Java | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: CEO Dan Springer, who took the company public last April, expanded DocuSign’s paid parental leave to a full six months after reflecting on the challenges of growing up with a single mother and now parenting as a single father.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 900 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Seattle, New York City | Fastest-growing skills: Market Research, Tableau, Business Analytics | Job functions with the most new hires: Sales, Engineering, IT | What may surprise you: Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse, vaulted to unicorn status last year and closed out the year with a $3.5 billion valuation. The company plans to use its latest funds to beef up its engineering and sales teams.

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Headcount in the U.S.: 7,960 | Top U.S. locations: San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver | Fastest-growing skills: Python, CSS, Data Analysis | Job functions with the most new hires: Engineering, Sales, IT | What may surprise you: Workday, which builds cloud-based applications for finance and HR, has over 1,300 jobs open right now. Many of those roles are spread across the U.S., such as a senior technology consultant in Charlotte, N.C. and a senior software engineer in Boulder, Colo.

Read more: How one Workday employee rose the ranks.

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Methodology

LinkedIn ranks companies based on four pillars: interest in the company, engagement with employees, job demand and employee retention. Interest in the company is measured by unique, non-employee new follows of the company’s LinkedIn page. Employee engagement looks at how many non-employees are viewing unique employees at the company. Job demand counts the rate at which people are viewing and applying to jobs at the company, including both paid and unpaid job postings on LinkedIn. Employee retention measures how many employees are still at the company at least one year after their date of hire, based on LinkedIn member profiles. To be eligible, companies must have at least 500 employees as of Feb. 1 and must have flat or positive employee growth over the 12 months (based on LinkedIn Talent Insights data). Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and associated data are wrapped into its total score. All data is normalized based on company size. The methodology and insights time frame is Feb. 1, 2018 through Jan. 31, 2019. All data is aggregated and anonymized to protect members’ private information.

We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, nonprofits, educational institutions, government agencies and government-owned entities. We also exclude LinkedIn and LinkedIn’s parent company, Microsoft, from any LinkedIn Lists.

About company insights

*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes full-time employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as part-time or contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly or public filings, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn data. The insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from February 2019.

Reported by: Amy Chen, Laura Lorenzetti, Ashley Peterson, Lorraine Lee, Kelli Nguyen and Lucy Dwyer.