50 best companies to work for in India

In a list that was bound to be dominated by IT and technology companies, the suprise pack of manufacturing and production has spoilt the party. Eleven of the 50 companies are from the manufacturing and production sector, 11 companies are from IT and IT related sectors, six are finance, three from telecom and the rest are split between various industries.

The list is split between 29 privately held companies, 17 publicly listed companies, three government companies and one non-profit organization. Three Public Supply Units or PSUs (NTPC, Vizag Steel Plant and Indian Oil Corporation) made it to the list. These PSUs also have one of the highest number of employees in the list. Professional Assistance For Development Action, PRADA) is the non-profit organization which made it to the list. 

And before I forget, Google India has topped the list. MakeMyTrip which can be counted as a travel management and a technology company is second to Google.

The list arrived from TrustIndex and CultureAudit. TrustIndex is a questionaire for employees which takes 15 minutes to complete. This is administered online and a random set is chosen. CultureAudit has questionnaires for the management requesting quantitative and qualitative data. Both these are combined to arrive at the final list.

One thing I have noticed though is the list is dominated by small companies – companies which have less than 1000 employees (17 companies). Some even have less than 400 employees. It is easy to keep a small group happy while it becomes challenging when the number of employees grow. That is where it is important companies like NTPC, Intelenet Global, Indian Oil Corporation, Vizag Steel Plant, Firstsource Solutions and Bharti Airtel are on the list. These are no small companies and have employees in excess of 17000. Keeping such a large group happy should earn them a few brownie points.

Here’s the list. The 50 best companies to work for in India :

 

Rank	Company Name	Employees	Industry	Ownership
1	Google India Pvt. Ltd.	1259	IT-Software	Public
2	MakeMyTrip (India) Pvt. Ltd.	674	Travel Management	Private
3	Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.	2430	IT-Software	Private
4	Marriott Hotels India Pvt. Ltd.	2433	Hospitality Hotel/Resort	Public
5	NetApp India Pvt. Ltd.	1042	IT-Storage/Datamangament	Private
6	American Express, India	5200	Finance	Public
7	NTPC Ltd.	24708	Manufacturing&production	Govt
8	PayPal India Pvt. Ltd.	419	Finance	Private
9	Ajuba Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.	1612	IT BPO	Private
10	SAS Institute (India) Pvt. Ltd.	108	IT-Software	private
11	Crowne Plaza Today	399	Hospitality	Private
12	Dow Corning India Pvt. Ltd.	241	Manufacturing&production	Private
13	Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces	13009	Hospitality Hotel/Resort	Public
14	Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.	1314	Manufacturing&production	Public
15	Whirlpool Of India	1128	Manufacturing&production	Private
16	InterGlobe Enterprises Ltd.	5040	Transportation-Airline	Private
17	iNautix Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.	2263	IT-Software	Private
18	Hilti India Pvt. Ltd.	427	Construction & Real Estate	Private
19	Titan Industries Ltd.	4329	Retail	Public
20	Intelenet Global Services	25810	IT	Private
21	Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.	1073	Telecommunication	Public
22	Federal Express Corporation	517	Transportation-Package	Public
23	Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.	6461	Finance	Public
24	Jubilant Foodworks Ltd.	5650	Hospitality-Food &Beverage	Private
25	Classic Stripes Ltd.	325	Manufacturing&production	Private
26	Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd.	363	Media	Private
27	Bharti Airtel Ltd.	17227	Telecommunication	Private
28	BNY Mellon International Operations (India) Pvt. Ltd.	1816	Finance	Private
29	Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.	17225	Manufacturing&production-Metals	Govt
30	Talentica Software India Pvt. Ltd.	104	IT-Software	Private
31	Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.	33954	Manufacturing&Production-Gasoline	Govt
32	Yum Restaurants India Pvt. Ltd.	1713	Hospitality-Food &Beverage	Private
33	Monsanto India Ltd.	785		Public
34	HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd.	14228	Finance	Private
35	Tata Teleservices Ltd.	8743	Telecommunication	Private
36	Marico Ltd.	1266	Manufacturing&Production-Personal	Public
37	Claris Lifesciences Ltd.	1312	Biotechnology&Pharma	Public
38	Cadbury India Ltd.	2347	Manufacturing&Production-Food	Private
39	Intuit Technologies Services Pvt. Ltd.	304	IT	Public
40	Quintiles India	1317	Healthcare	Private
41	Blue Dart Express Ltd.	6015	Transportation-Package	Public
42	Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd.	891	Hospitality-Food &Beverage	Private
43	Eureka Forbes	9084	Advertising&Marketing	Private
44	Godrej Industries Ltd. (Chemicals SBU)	1223	Manufacturing&Production-Chemicals	Public
45	S.C. Johnson Products Pvt. Ltd.	578	Manufacturing & Production-Personal	Private
46	Bajaj Capital Ltd.	873	Finance	Private
47	Professional Assistance For Development Action, PRADAN	259	Social Services & Govt Agency	Non-Profit
48	Firstsource Solutions Ltd.	20065	IT	Public
49	LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd.	3896	Electronics	Private
50	Pitney Bowes Software India	364	IT	Public

Bharti Airtel, Qualcomm and Tata Teleservices are the telecom companies which made it to the list. The top list is a rare blend of multi-national technology companies, Indian PSU’s and Indian software companies. Other than Google, none of the names in the list are regular names. The usual suspects like Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Accenture and Cognizant do not even make it the list. I am not insinuating anything but shouldn’t at least one of those companies be on the list? Now that they are not, shouldn’t they try to be on the list? Or have they not participated in the survey?

PS : Over 640 organizations and 18000 employees have participated in the survey. So this study is as thorough and complete as it can get.

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