Best Places to Work in IT 2018

These 100 U.S. employers attract top tech talent with stellar benefits, challenging projects and plenty of opportunities for growth.

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The 100 Best Places to Work in IT

Large organization rankings (5,000 or more U.S. employees)

1	Quicken Loans	Detroit
2	Owens Corning	Toledo, Ohio
3	VMware	Palo Alto, Calif.
4	Workday	Pleasanton, Calif.
5	Genentech	South San Francisco, Calif.
6	Applied Materials	Santa Clara, Calif.
7	DHL Express	Plantation, Fla.
8	Prudential Financial	Newark, N.J.
9	Vanguard	Malvern, Pa.
10	Worthington Industries	Columbus, Ohio
11	Norton Healthcare	Louisville, Ky.
12	Altria Client Services	Richmond, Va.
13	Discover Financial Services	Riverwoods, Ill.
14	Asurion	Nashville, Tenn.
15	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Ind.
16	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	Laurel, Md.
17	Kaiser Permanente	Oakland, Calif.
18	Booz Allen Hamilton	McLean, Va.
19	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Pasadena, Calif.
20	Raytheon	Waltham, Mass.
21	International Paper	Memphis, Tenn.
22	Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta	Atlanta
23	Navy Federal Credit Union	Vienna, Va.
24	Motorola Solutions	Chicago
25	Erickson Living	Catonsville, Md.
26	CDW	Lincolnshire, Ill.
27	Nationwide Mutual Insurance	Columbus, Ohio
28	FedEx	Memphis, Tenn.
29	Principal Financial Group	Des Moines, Iowa
30	Johns Hopkins Medicine	Baltimore
31	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute	Tampa, Fla.
32	Dignity Health	Phoenix
33	Portland State University	Portland, Ore.
34	RSM US	Chicago
35	Ascension	St. Louis
36	Monsanto	Creve Coeur, Mo.
37	Humana	Louisville, Ky.
38	Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia
39	Memorial Healthcare System	Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
40	SAS	Cary, N.C.
41	MSC Industrial Supply	Melville, N.Y.
42	Sharp HealthCare	San Diego
43	CA Technologies	New York
44	Jack Henry and Associates	Monett, Mo.
45	Cancer Treatment Centers of America	Boca Raton, Fla.
46	DriveTime	Tempe, Ariz.
47	Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association)	Washington, D.C.
48	Holman Enterprises	Mount Laurel, N.J.
49	Zimmer Biomet	Warsaw, Ind.
50	Carolinas HealthCare System	Charlotte, N.C.
51	Mitre	McLean, Va.
52	Cedars-Sinai	Los Angeles
53	Adventist Health System	Altamonte Springs, Fla.
54	Southern Co.	Atlanta
55	American Family Life Assurance Co. (AFLAC)	Columbus, Ga.
56	PricewaterhouseCoopers	New York
57	Palmetto Health	Columbia, S.C.
58	Kroger Technology	Cincinnati, Ohio
59	University of Oklahoma	Norman, Okla.

Midsize organization rankings (1,001 – 4,999 U.S. employees)

1	Ultimate Software	Weston, Fla.
2	Enova International	Chicago
3	Plante Moran	Southfield, Mich.
4	Credit Acceptance	Southfield, Mich.
5	Halifax Health	Daytona Beach, Fla.
6	AARP	Washington, D.C.
7	Illumina	San Diego
8	Zebra Technologies	Lincolnshire, Ill.
9	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina	Durham, N.C.
10	Datto	Norwalk, Conn.
11	CME Group	Chicago
12	CHG Healthcare	Midvale, Utah
13	Informatica	Redwood City, Calif.
14	Genesis HealthCare System	Zanesville, Ohio
15	Baird	Milwaukee
16	Janney Montgomery Scott	Philadelphia
17	Avanade	Seattle
18	American Fidelity Assurance	Oklahoma City
19	Matson	Honolulu
20	Workiva	Ames, Iowa
21	Caesars Entertainment Services	Las Vegas

Small organization rankings (1,000 or fewer U.S. employees)

1	Cloud for Good	Asheville, N.C.
2	Axxess	Dallas
3	Sev1Tech	Woodbridge, Va.
4	Dataprise	Rockville, Md.
5	Commonwealth Financial Network	Waltham, Mass.
6	Secure-24	Southfield, Mich.
7	NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)	Indianapolis
8	NRECA (National Rural Electric Cooperative Association)	Arlington, Va.
9	Infoverity	Dublin, Ohio
10	Connectria Hosting	St. Louis
11	Liquidnet Holdings	New York
12	National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC)	Lake St. Louis, Mo.
13	Pariveda Solutions	Dallas
14	oXya	Jersey City, N.J.
15	Planned Systems International	Arlington, Va.
16	MetroStar Systems	Reston, Va.
17	Avaap	Edison, N.J.
18	CFA Institute	Charlottesville, Va.
19	Paramount Software Solutions	Alpharetta, Ga.
20	Health Catalyst	Salt Lake City

Methodology: How we chose the Best Places to Work

For the 25th year in a row, Computerworld conducted a survey to identify the 100 best places to work for IT professionals. In November 2017, Computerworld started accepting nominations from U.S.-based organizations and from non-U.S.- based employers that met the following criteria: They were required to have a minimum of 300 total employees at a U.S. headquarters and a minimum of 30 IT employees in the U.S., with at least 50% of their IT employees based in the U.S.

Participants were asked to provide contact information for the person at their organization who is familiar with or has access to employment statistics and financial data, as well as benefits policies and programs for the IT department and the organization as a whole.

In January 2018, the contacts at the nominated organizations received a 52-question company survey asking about average salary and bonus increases, percentage of IT staffers promoted, IT staff turnover rates, training and development, and the percentage of women and minorities in IT staff and management positions. In addition, information was collected on the employer’s retention programs, methods of rewarding outstanding performances, and benefits ranging from elder care and child care to flextime and reimbursement for college tuition and the costs of earning technology certifications.

Upon completion of the company survey, participants were instructed to select a random sample of employees from their U.S.-based full- and part-time IT staffs for participation in an employee survey. All participating companies were emailed instructions regarding sample selection as well as a unique survey link to share with employees. Topics covered in the employee survey included satisfaction with compensation and benefits, training and development programs, and work/life balance. In addition, employees were asked to rate employee morale in the IT department, the importance of various benefits, and their level of agreement with a variety of statements on topics ranging from career growth to management’s fair and equal treatment of employees.

A total of 20,566 IT employees responded to the employee survey from the final 100 organizations selected as best places to work for IT professionals.

The nomination survey, company survey and employee survey were all conducted via the internet. The responses to the company and employee surveys were collected and tabulated by a third-party research vendor. The company portion of the research was closed in February 2018, and the employee survey portion was closed in March 2018.

Top 10 Lists

Our top 10 lists show the best of the best — the organizations that excel in these four areas of human resources: career development, retention, benefits and training. To determine those lists, we considered the following factors:

Benefits: The range of benefits offered, including sabbaticals, elder care and child care, and health and vision plans; employee satisfaction with the range of benefits.

Career development: Mentoring programs; tuition reimbursement for college classes and technical certifications; promotions within IT; employee satisfaction with tuition reimbursement, opportunities for career growth and management’s involvement in career development.

Diversity: Percentage of women and minorities in staff and managerial positions; employee perceptions that management treats everyone fairly regardless of race or gender.

Retention: Frequency of employee satisfaction surveys; turnover rate; promotions; morale; employee satisfaction with work/life balance, sabbaticals, job-sharing and telecommuting programs.

Training: Number of training days; training budget; employee satisfaction with training and access to training; satisfaction with reimbursement for certification training; satisfaction with continuing education programs.

In scoring the responses from the company and employee surveys, company results were weighted based on the importance ratings provided by respondents to the employee survey. Approximately half of the total scoring was based on employee responses, with the remaining half based on the survey of the company’s benefits and other programs.

The survey process was managed by Jen Garofalo, research director in IDG’s Strategic Marketing Services group, working with independent firm Research Results. A complete description of our methodology is available on our website.

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