Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For In 2009
From the archive: published Jan 22, 2009, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Fortune Magazine has released its annual “Fortune 100” list of the best companies to work for in 2009. Most of the companies currently have job openings and are hiring, too.
Taking the top spot from Google this year is data storage and management company NetApp. Google dropped to #4.
Debuting on the list for the first time is online retailer Zappos, a company that’s made many headlines for its advanced tech-friendly marketing strategies.
Other tech companies making the Fortune 100 include Adobe (#11), Qualcomm (#16), Microsoft (#38), and eBay (#83).
The full list is below.
Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For
Rank Company Job growth U.S. employees 1 NetApp 12% 5,014 2 Edward Jones 9% 34,496 3 Boston Consulting Group 10% 1,680 4 Google 40% 12,580 5 Wegmans Food Markets 6% 37,195 6 Cisco Systems 7% 37,123 7 Genentech 5% 10,969 8 Methodist Hospital System 1% 10,535 9 Goldman Sachs 2% 14,088 10 Nugget Market 22% 1,536 11 Adobe Systems 9% 4,255 12 Recreational Equipment (REI) 11% 9,780 13 Devon Energy 11% 3,752 14 Robert W. Baird 4% 2,184 15 W. L. Gore Associates 5% 5,481 16 Qualcomm 19% 11,932 17 Principal Financial Group -1% 13,343 18 Shared Technologies 12% 1,568 19 OhioHealth 7% 11,858 20 SAS 5% 5,381 21 Arnold Porter 3% 1,296 22 Whole Foods Market 22% 51,967 23 Zappos.com 39% 1,655 24 Starbucks -6% 146,700 25 Johnson Financial Group 4% 1,300 26 Aflac 1% 4,493 27 QuikTrip 33% 10,159 28 PCL Construction Enterprises 24% 4,420 29 Quicken Loans -41% 2,890 30 Bingham McCutchen -2% 1,605 31 CarMax 14% 16,107 32 Container Store 4% 3,286 33 JM Family Enterprises -1% 4,577 34 Umpqua Bank -4% 1,707 35 Kimley-Horn Associates -8% 2,190 36 Alston Bird 7% 1,718 37 TDIndustries 7% 1,713 38 Microsoft 15% 55,237 39 Paychex 5% 12,207 40 EOG Resources 30% 1,803 41 Camden Property Trust -1% 1,849 42 Plante Moran 4% 1,558 43 Rackspace Hosting 59% 1,992 44 NuStar Energy 23% 1,319 45 King’s Daughters Medical Cntr. 4% 3,041 46 American Fidelity Assurance 10% 1,509 47 DreamWorks Animation SKG 18% 1,614 48 Mattel N.A.% 5,552 49 Intuit 0% 7,637 50 Burns McDonnell 16% 2,840 51 Ernst Young 0% 26,090 52 Booz Allen Hamilton 9% 19,243 53 Stew Leonard’s -2% 2,219 54 Erickson Retirement Communities 18% 10,871 55 Salesforce.com 24% 1,958 56 KPMG 7% 24,442 57 Novo Nordisk 11% 3,053 58 PricewaterhouseCoopers -2% 29,144 59 Scripps Health 6% 10,374 60 Scottrade 25% 1,946 61 Deloitte 7% 38,903 62 Griffin Hospital -2% 1,143 63 Mayo Clinic 3% 41,955 64 Milliken -6% 8,150 65 Texas Instruments -4% 14,379 66 MITRE 6% 6,420 67 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta 8% 5,850 68 Southern Ohio Medical Center 4% 2,188 69 National Instruments 8% 2,527 70 Stanley 65% 4,590 71 Men’s Wearhouse -1% 16,477 72 Nordstrom -8% 49,236 73 Chesapeake Energy 23% 6,850 74 Alcon Laboratories 5% 7,160 75 Atlantic Health System 2% 6,968 76 Lehigh Valley Hospital Health Network 6% 8,897 77 Northwest Community Hospital -3% 3,372 78 Marriott International 2% 124,247 79 Baptist Health South Florida 9% 10,641 80 Bright Horizons -1% 14,437 81 S.C. Johnson Son -1% 3,368 82 Perkins Coie 3% 1,696 83 eBay 9% 9,089 84 Juniper Networks 15% 3,743 85 Arkansas Children’s Hospital 6% 3,527 86 CH2M HILL 14% 19,011 87 Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe 8% 1,609 88 Publix Super Markets 3% 141,314 89 Herman Miller -7% 5,646 90 FedEx -1% 233,457 91 Gilbane 12% 2,169 92 Four Seasons Hotels 4% 13,401 93 Valero Energy -4% 16,881 94 Build-A-Bear Workshop 2% 4,886 95 Kimpton Hotels Restaurants 4% 6,298 96 T-Mobile 12% 39,822 97 Accenture 7% 32,318 98 Vanderbilt University 5% 21,041 99 General Mills -1% 17,018 100 SRA International 21% 6,266From the February 2, 2009 issue
