Fortune: 15 Bay Area Companies Among Best To Work For

BAY AREA, CA — The business magazine Fortune, in partnership with analytics firm Great Place to Work, has released its annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the United States.

Hilton took home the top spot on the list for the second year in a row, with Ultimate Software and Wegmans Food Markets rounding out the top three.

There are 15 companies on the list with the most in the South Bay with six, five in San Francisco, three on the Peninsula, and one in the East Bay. Here are the companies, grouped by geographic location:

• South Bay: Cisco, Intuit, Nvidia, Adobe, Cadence, and Nutanix
• San Francisco: Salesforce, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Orrick, Dropbox, and Atlassian
• Peninsula: Cooley, Box, and Genentech
• East Bay: Workday

To be considered for the list, companies submitted an application detailing over 200 data points describing their HR programs and practices. Great Place to Work, an analytics firm that has partnered with Fortune to create the list for the past 23 years, then conducted an anonymous survey of each company's workforce.

In total, 85 percent of the evaluation was based on what employees reported in the survey about “their experiences of trust and reaching their full human potential as part of their organization,” according to a methodology section for the rankings on Fortune’s website.

Companies need to employ at least 1,000 U.S. employees to be considered for the list, and government agencies aren’t eligible.

You can read the full methodology here.

Here are the top 10 companies to work for in the United States in 2020, according to Fortune:

1. Hilton
2. Ultimate Software
3. Wegmans Food Markets
4. Cisco
5. Workday
6. Salesforce
7. Edward Jones
8. Stryker
9. American Express
10. Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

The full list of companies on the 2020 list is available on Fortune.