20 CA Companies Among The Best To Work For In 2018: Fortune

CALIFORNIA — Twenty California companies are among the 100 best in the country to work for in 2018, according to a new list released by Fortune.

The No. 1 company on the list was San Francisco-based Salesforce, which Fortune credits for forging an “unusual corporate culture from the beginning.” Salesforce has paid out $5.5 million to employees who have referred new hires and they help strong performers find new challenges.

The grocery chain Wegmans was No. 2 on the list. Fortune says employees at the Rochester, New York-based company find the work fulfilling and it gives them a sense of purpose.

Among the other 20 California companies to make the list were:

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants (No. 6), San Francisco
Workday (No. 7), Pleasanton
Genentech (No. 8), South San Francisco
Intuit (No. 13), Mountain View
Cooley (No. 18), Palo Alto
Adobe Systems (No. 26), San Jose
The Cheesecake Factory (No. 27), Calabasas
NVIDIA (No. 30), Santa Clara
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (No. 31), San Francisco
Cadence Design Systems (No. 38), Irvine
VMware (No. 39), Palo Alto
Scripps Health (No. 41), San Diego
Protiviti (No. 46), Menlo Park
Cisco (No. 48), San Jose
First American Financial Corporation (No. 63), Santa Ana
Dropbox (No. 64), San Francisco
Nugget Market (No. 70), Woodland
Autodesk (No. 80), San Rafael
Activision Blizzard (No. 84), Santa Monica

To be considered for the list, a company has to have at least 1,000 employees, according to Fortune. The list measured companies in the U.S. on characteristics like innovation and people-focused programs. Fortune scores each company on an analysis of anonymous employee responses to a survey along with an evaluation of company programs and practices. You can read more about Fortune’s methodology here.

Fortune said it received feedback from more than 315,000 employees to determine the winners.

Here are the top 10 companies on the list:

1. Salesforce
2. Wegmans Food Markets
3. Ultimate Software
4. The Boston Consulting Group
5. Edward Jones
6. Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
7. Workday
8. Genentech
9. Hyatt
10. Kimley-Horn

See the full list from Fortune here.

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