Top 10 Companies to work for in India
If we talk about the tech companies which are the best for working in India, it will absolutely include the fast growing tech companies and new startups. When we talk about the best companies to work for in India, they must be leading firms which offer their staff an opportunity to innovate and repay their efforts with appealing benefits.
This “Top 10 best companies to work for in India” is based on the different sources and feedbacks of LinkedIn’s more than 47 million users in India. This list focuses on mainly for points:
- Employee’s interest in the company
- Company’s engagement with employees
- Job demand
- Employees retention
Note: This list does not include LinkedIn and its parent company Microsoft in the list to make the result fair.
Here is the list of top 10 companies to work for in India:
Directi
Directi is a group of technology and business companies owned, operated or invested by Bhavin and/or DivyankTurakhia. This group has multiple business units which are run independently by their respective management teams. Directi group was founded by BhavinTurakhia and his brother DivyankTurakhia in 1998.
Directi comprises of companies like Radix, Ringo, Flock, Zeta and Codechef etc. Directi has more than 1600 employees in all over the 8 offices with over 9 million customers, revenues of over $250 million and a group enterprise value of over $1.4 billion. The company has invested in multiple category leading global brands across business areas as diverse as web presence (domains, hosting, cloud-infrastructure), online advertising, communication & collaboration (voice and messaging) and payments (benefits and compensation).
Founders: BhavinTurakhia & DivyankTurakhia
FlipKart
FlipKart is an e-commerce company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is founded by Sachin and Binny Bansal in 2007. This company primarily focused on online book selling and later expanded into other product categories like consumer electronics, fashion, and lifestyle products.
FlipKart has more than 30000 employees in all over the country. In August 2018, U.S.-based retail chain Walmart acquired its 77% controlling stake for US$16 billion, valuing it at $22 billion.
Founders: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
One97 Communications (Paytm)
One97 Communication is the parent company of Paytm. Paytm is an Indian e-commerce payment system and digital wallet company. Paytm provides services in 11 Indian languages and provides online use-cases like mobile recharges, utility bill payments, travel, movies, and events bookings. It also deals in in-store payments at grocery stores, fruits and vegetable shops, restaurants, parking, tolls, pharmacies and education institutions with the Paytm QR code.
Paytm is giving reward its fast-growing team by offering stock plans to its top performers. Recently more than 20 Paytm employees became multi-dollar millionaires by a secondary sale of stock options.
Founder: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Amazon
Amazon is an American multinational technology company which deals in e-commerce, cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon is going to invest $5 billion in India to compete with Flipkart and capture the country’s big and fast-growing population. Now, Amazon is the largest e-commerce, cloud computing and artificial intelligence company in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization.
Amazon.com was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. It was started as an online bookstore but later diversified to sell video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audio book downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry etc.
Founders: Jeff Bezos
McKinsey and Company
McKinsey & Company is an American worldwide management consulting firm. It conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis to evaluate management decisions across public and private sectors. It is considered as the most prestigious management consultancy firm.McKinsey’s clientele includes 80% of the world’s largest corporations, and an extensive list of governments and non-profit organizations.
This company has some of India’s biggest business brains among its alumni, from Ola’s Saikiran Krishnamurthy to Myntra’sAnanth Narayanan.This company provides great personal time for its employees. It facilitates its employees to “Take Time” program; staff is invited to take five to 10 weeks out of work to pursue a personal passion.
Founders: James O. McKinsey, Marvin Bower
Global Managing Partner: Kevin Sneader
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Anheuser-Busch InBev, commonaly known as AB InBev, is the global brewing company. It consists of a lot of brands such as Budweiser, Beck’s and Stella Artois.
Its Global International brands are:
- Budweiser
- Corona
- Stella Artois
- 4 Pines
- Beck’s
- Hoegaarden
- Leffe
AB InBev is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has additional main offices in Sao Paulo, New York City, London, St. Louis, Mexico City, Bremen, Johannesburg and others.
AB InBev employs more than 200,000 employees but, getting a job at this Beer king company is tough. Candidates may face as many as seven interviews and exercises, according to a Financial Times report.
CEO: Carlos Brito
Alphabet (Google’s parent company)
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational group of companies. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a corporate restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and then it became the parent company of Google and several other former Google subsidiaries.
Alphabet’s portfolio consists of several industries, including technology, life sciences, investment capital, and research. Some of its subsidiaries are Google, Calico, Chronicle, GV, CapitalG, Verily, Waymo, X, Loon and Google Fiber.
Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
KPMG India
KPMG is one of the biggest 4 professional auditors companies in India along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).The name KPMG stands for Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler. This name was given out when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick in 1987.
Company Headquarter and Area of Service
It is headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherland and having more than 207,050 employees worldwide. This company mainly deals in three main categories,financial audit, tax, and advisory where tax and advisory services are further divided into various service groups.
Founders:
- William Barclay Peat
- James Marwick
EY (Ernst and Young)
EY or Ernst and Young is a multinational professional servicecompany which is headquartered in London, England (United Kingdom). This is the largest professional service firm and one of the “Big-4” professional service companies in the world.
It has more than 270,000 employees in over 700 offices around 150 countries in the world. The main service areas of this company are; assurance (including financial audit), tax, consulting and advisory services to companies.
Chairman & CEO: Carmine Di Sibio
Owner: Ernst & Young LLP.
OYO Rooms
OYO Rooms is commonly known as OYO. It is the India’s largest budget hotel aggregator. It is launched in 2013 by Ritesh Agrawal. OYO Rooms has grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia in the short span of 5 years.
OYO rooms recent plan is to implement a digital register mechanism which will allow them to share their customer data in real time with the government. This may allow government to see in real time the guest information easily. OYO is more popular among unmarried couples than families, thus this move really imposes a threat to privacy for them.
Founder: Ritesh Agarwal
CEO: Aditya Ghosh
