Apple Rises to Sixth in LinkedIn's 2018 List of Top Companies to Work, Trails Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook

Apple is ranked sixth on LinkedIn's annual list of the top 50 companies where professionals most want to work in the United States.

Apple moved up one spot after ranking seventh in 2017. The top five spots belong to Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Salesforce, and Tesla, while NBCUniversal, The Walt Disney Company, Oracle, and Netflix round off the top ten.

LinkedIn says the list is based on billions of data points generated by over 546 million users on the site, with four areas of focus: interest in the company, engagement with the company's employees, job demand, and employee retention.

• Job demand: At what rate are people viewing and applying to job postings, including paid listings, unpaid ones and those linked from other sites?
  

• Engagement with the company: How many professionals are viewing a company's career page? How many new followers has the company attracted?
  

• Interest in its employees: How many non-employees are viewing and asking to connect with a company's employees?
  

• Retention: Are employees sticking around for at least a year?

It's worth noting that many different lists are published each year, and the results can often vary significantly. In December, for example, Apple ranked 84th on Glassdoor's annual list of the best companies to work at in the United States.

2018 LinkedIn Top Companies:

1. Amazon
   

2. Alphabet
   

3. Facebook
   

4. Salesforce
   

5. Tesla
   

6. Apple
   

7. NBCUniversal
   

8. The Walt Disney Company
   

9. Oracle
   

10. Netflix




11. Spotify
    

12. Uber
    

13. McKinsey & Company
    

14. Adobe
    

15. Airbnb
    

16. Time Warner Inc.
    

17. Dell Technologies
    

18. JPMorgan Chase & Co.
    

19. LVMH
    

20. IBM
    

21. Samsung
    

22. Deloitte
    

23. Verizon
    

24. Goldman Sachs
    

25. PwC
    

26. The Boston Consulting Group
    

27. Live Nation Entertainment
    

28. Morgan Stanley
    

29. EY
    

30. Stryker
    

31. Cisco
    

32. Dropbox
    

33. National Basketball Association
    

34. Accenture
    

35. Nike
    

36. WeWork
    

37. Citadel
    

38. Kering
    

39. National Football League
    

40. Square
    

41. ADP
    

42. Capital One
    

43. Twitter
    

44. Box
    

45. Johnson & Johnson
    

46. Starbucks
    

47. PepsiCo
    

48. JLL
    

49. Tableau Software
    

50. Abbott

LinkedIn shared similar lists for other countries, including Canada, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.