Fortune's Top 100 Companies to Work For

1. NetApp

Rank: 1 (Previous rank: 14)

What makes it so great?

Employee enthusiasm for the legendary egalitarian culture helped catapult NetApp to No. 1 after six years on our list.

Typical of its down-to-earth management ethos, NetApp early on ditched a travel policy a dozen ­pages long in favor of this maxim: "We are a frugal company. But don't show up dog-tired to save a few bucks. Use your common sense." Rather than business plans, many units write "future histories," imagining where their business will be a year or two out.

And the benefits are tops: five paid days for volunteer work, $11,390 adoption aid, and autism coverage -- used by 43 employees since 2006 at a cost of $242,452. The company has gained market share during the slump, hasn't had layoffs, and has more than $2 billion in cash on hand to help it ride out the global financial crisis.

Headquarters: 495 East Java Drive

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

2007 revenue ($ millions): 3,303

Website: www.netapp.com

Top 100

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%	6,266

From the February 2, 2009 issue