100 Best Companies to Work For

To compile the list, Fortune partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to survey a random group of employees from each company.

"[2] According to the magazine, the Trust Index "asks questions related to employees' attitudes about management's credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie."

"[2] The methodology has been criticized as being too superficial in focusing primarily on perks, leadership, and financial success as opposed to actual workplace culture and sense of purpose.

[4][5] Additionally, Wegmans, SAS Institute, W. L. Gore, REI, Goldman Sachs, TDIndustries,[6] Publix, Four Seasons, Whole Foods, The Container Store, Cisco, Marriott, Genentech[7] and Nordstrom have all have been on the list at least 17 times.

[5] In 2011, finance professor Alex Edmans published a paper in the Journal of Financial Economics showing that the 100 Best Companies to Work For outperformed their peers in total shareholder returns by 2.1–3.5% from 1984–2009.