100 best companies to work for

Fortune 500’s 100 best companies to work for-

Do you ever find these things interesting? I do.

Wonder what makes them good places to work (one of them listed that they have m&m’s every wednesday- that would do it for me!).

Wonder why some companies make the list year after year (Container Store) and some never ever make the list at all (ahem-no comment).

Most on this list I have never heard of.

Most of the ones that I have heard of are in California, Texas, or Seattle.

All nice places to live.

I’m just sayin’.

Here is the 2009 list

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 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% 6,266