Top Companies 2021: The 25 best workplaces to grow your career in India

Today, we are launching our 2021 LinkedIn Top Companies list, a ranking of the 25 best workplaces to grow your career. This fifth annual launch also debuts our all-new methodology, which uses unique LinkedIn data to go beyond the companies that attract talent to uncover the companies that invest in their talent. These 25 companies help employees build a professional foundation that sets them up for success both at the company and beyond. 

Our new methodology has seven key pillars, each revealing an important element of career progression: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender diversity and educational background. You can dig into the details of our methodology at the bottom of the article.

We hope that the Top Companies list will serve as a go-to resource for professionals at every stage, from those who are looking to get back on their feet after an unprecedented year to those who are ready to make the next step in their career journey. At each company, you can see which roles and skills are in demand — as well as explore open jobs and see people you may know. See a company that feels like a good fit for you? Follow their company page and/or turn on job alerts to ensure you don’t miss out on future opportunities.

You can also check out the Top Companies in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Qatar, the UAE, the U.K. and the U.S.

Here are this year’s 25 in India.

Company insights, such as skills and top locations, are sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and reflect only employees on LinkedIn. We use headcounts provided by the company whenever possible. More details below.

Blurb writer: Abhigyan

Headcount in India: 469,000 | Top India locations: Chennai Area, Bengaluru Area, Mumbai Area | Most common skills: SQL, Java, Requirements Analysis | In-demand jobs: Information Technology, Engineering, Consulting | What you should know: India’s top IT services company adapted swiftly to the pandemic with flexibility and decisiveness: 75% of its staff will work remotely by 2025 as the software exporter leverages technology to create a “never seen before fungibility of talent”. In a year when employers are cutting costs aggressively, TCS announced two salary increments for its workforce in six months and rolled out as many as 40,000 campus offers. Attrition at the company recorded an all-time low of 7.2% in the March quarter. s

See jobs at Tata Consultancy Services | See people you may know at Tata Consultancy Services

Blurb writer: Abhigyan

Headcount in India: 204,500 | Top India locations: Chennai Area, Bengaluru Area,

Hyderabad Area | Most common skills: SQL, Programming, Java | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Information Technology, Business Development | What you should know: To recognise and reward its employees working through the pandemic, Cognizant handed out bonuses last month and promoted more than 24,000 people across levels. The Teaneck, New Jersey-headquartered company expects to hire nearly 23,000 freshers this year, mainly in areas such as cloud, data, digital engineering, internet of things, cybersecurity and business modernisation technologies. More than 130,000 employees have been trained in digital skills in the last 18 months.

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Blurb writer: Abhigyan 

Global headcount: 537,000 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Mumbai Area, Hyderabad Area | Most common skills: SQL, Software Development, Java | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Information Technology, Business Development | What you should know: Accenture made news recently after it switched to gender-neutral policies centred on the caregiver rather than their gender or marital status. Business is brisk and back to “pre-COVID level” for the IT giant amid strong growth in outsourcing revenue and robust demand for digital transformation services.

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Blurb writer: Abhigyan 

Headcount in India: 52,000 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, Chennai Area, Bengaluru Area | Most common skills: AutoCAD, SQL, C (Programming Language) | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Operations, Information Technology | What you should know: Soon after COVID-19 hit, Larsen & Toubro announced that it wouldn’t lay off people. Employees have been looked after with doubling of health insurance and evacuation of staff stranded in the Middle East in the early days of the pandemic. India’s top construction conglomerate also has a sharp focus on grooming in-house talent with most of its board of directors coming from within the company.

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Blurb writer: Ankit 

Headcount in India: 158,020 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Hyderabad Area, Chennai Area | Most common skills: SQL, Java, Requirements Analysis | In-demand jobs: Information Technology, Engineering, Consulting | What you should know: Among the leading IT players in the country, Infosys is riding the wave of tech adoption by companies successfully and has ambitious plans of hiring close to 26,000 new employees this year. Like most companies, 2020 tested Infy with 97% of their workforce not attending office for a year. More than 150 interventions and programs including ‘Infy Ikigai’ and ‘Samaritans’ - a peer-to-peer counselling network boosted employee morale and wellbeing as the business conducted hybrid work. 

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Blurb writer: Ankit

Headcount in India: 12,000 | Top India locations: Hyderabad Area, Bengaluru Area, Mumbai Area | Most common skills: Business Analysis, SQL, Financial Analysis | In-demand jobs: Consulting, Business Development, Accounting | What you should know: Deloitte India’s services include audit and assurance, strategy consulting, risk advisory, tax and financial advisory work. With 50,000 existing employees, Deloitte plans to add 75,000 new jobs in the next 3 years as part of an ambitious India plan. 

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Blurb writer: Ankit

Global headcount: 284,000 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, New Delhi Area, Mumbai Area, | Most common skills: Financial Analysis, Accounting, Business Analysis | In-demand jobs: Consulting, Accounting, Business Development | What you should know: Global professional services organisation EY is looking to hire 9,000 people in 2021 in India. Most will be from STEM backgrounds in fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, analytics and emerging technologies. With a stated mission of “Building a better working world”, EY plans to add capacity across all member firms this year, to support clients’ tech-driven transformation. 

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Blurb writer: Ankit 

Headcount in India: 156,480 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Chennai Area, Hyderabad Area | Most common skills: SQL, Requirements Analysis, Software Development | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Information Technology, Business Development | What you should know: India’s IT sector has been on a record hiring spree despite the pandemic.. Wipro has ambitious expansion plans for its workforce and has stated it will add more jobs than it did in 2020. In January, the company conducted an Elite National Talent Hunt, to recruit top graduating engineers from colleges across India.

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Blurb writer: Ankit 

Headcount in India: 100,000 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Hyderabad Area, Chennai Area, India | Most common skills: Java, SQL, C (Programming Language) | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Operations, Information Technology | What you should know: Celebrating a decade in India, Amazon enabled exports worth $3 billion dollars and generated over a million jobs. In 2020, Amazon India added more than 3,00,000 jobs and a billion dollars in business. Founder Jeff Bezos said Amazon aims to create 1 million additional jobs and $10 billion dollars worth of e-commerce exports till 2025. 

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Blurb writer: Ankit 

Headcount in India: 116,970 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, New Delhi Area, Bengaluru Area | Most common skills: Sales Management, Retail Banking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | In-demand jobs: Sales, Finance, Business Development | What you should know: Showing support for its employees, HDFC Bank ex-CEO Aditya Puri told employees in October last year that their bonuses and increments and jobs were secure, in a bid to boost employee morale. In a sign of recovery, advances, deposits and loan disbursements have climbed back to pre-COVID levels in 2021.

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Headcount in India: 125,000 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Mumbai Area, Hyderabad Area | Most common skills: SQL, Requirements Analysis, Java | In-demand jobs: Consulting, Engineering, Information Technology | 

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Headcount in India: 26,488 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, Jamnagar Area, New Delhi Area | Most common skills: Vendor Management, Commissioning, Operations Management | In-demand jobs: Operations, Engineering, Sales 

See jobs at Reliance Industries Limited | See people you may know at Reliance Industries Limited

Global headcount: 350,000 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Hyderabad Area, New Delhi Area | Most common skills: SQL, Requirements Analysis Business Analysis | In-demand jobs: Information Technology, Engineering, Program and Project Management | 

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Headcount in India: 97,350 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, New Delhi Area, Hyderabad Area | Most common skill: Sales Management, Retail Banking, Management Information Systems (MIS) | In-demand jobs: Finance, Sales, Support | 

See jobs at ICICI Bank | See people you may know at ICICI Bank

Headcount in India: 29,668 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Nasik Area, Hyderabad Area | Most common skills: Aviation, Manufacturing, Aerospace | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Operations, Arts and Design | 

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Headcount in India: 33,752 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, New Delhi Area, Chandigarh Area | Most common skills: C (Programming Language), C++, Java | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Operations, Research | 

See jobs at Bharat Electronics Limited | See people you may know at Bharat Electronics Limited

Headcount in India: 1,68,977 | Top India locations: Chennai Area, New Delhi Area, Bengaluru Area | Most common skills: SQL, Software Development, Requirements Analysis | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Information Technology, Business Development | 

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Headcount in India: 100,000 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, New Delhi Area, Bengaluru Area | Most common skills: Sales Management, Vendor Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | In-demand jobs: Sales, Operations, Engineering  

See jobs at Aditya Birla Group | See people you may know at Aditya Birla Group

Headcount in India: 33,752 | Top India locations: Hyderabad Area, Tiruchchirappalli Area, Bhopal Area | Most common skills: Manufacturing, C (Programming Language) | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Operations, Business Development | 

See jobs at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited | See people you may know at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Headcount in India: 34,000 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, Bengaluru Area, Hyderabad Area | Most common skills: Business Analysis, Banking, SQL | In-demand jobs: Information Technology, Engineering, Operations | 

See jobs at JPMorgan Chase & Co. | See people you may know at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Headcount in India: 28,500 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, Ahmedabad Area, New Delhi Area | Most common skills: C (Programming Language), C++ | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Operations, Research | 

See jobs at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd | See people you may know at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd

Headcount in India: 9437 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, Mumbai Area, New Delhi Area | Most common skills: Software Development, C++ | In-demand jobs: Engineering, Information Technology, Business Development | 

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Headcount in India: 72,000 | Top India locations: Mumbai Area, New Delhi Area, Kolkata Area, | Most common skills: Retail Banking, Sales Management, Management Information Systems (MIS) | In-demand jobs: Finance, Sales, Business Development | 

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Headcount in India: 12,000 | Top India locations: Bengaluru Area, New Delhi Area, Mumbai Area | Most common skills: Supply Chain Management, Vendor Management, Operations Management | In-demand jobs: Business Development, Operations, Information Technology | 

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Headcount in India: 18,936 | Top India locations: Noida Area, New Delhi Area, Vishakhapatnam Area | Most common skills: C (Programming Language), C++, Commissioning | In-demand jobs: Operations, Engineering, Business Development | 

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Methodology

Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on seven pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity and educational background. Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardized job titles. Skills growth looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed at the company, using standardized LinkedIn skills. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year, as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company at least three years. External opportunity looks at Recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signaling demand for workers coming from these companies. Company affinity, which seeks to measure how supportive a company’s culture is, looks at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for company size. Gender diversity measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries. Finally, educational background examines the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree up to Ph.D. levels, reflecting a commitment to recruiting a wide range of professionals. 

To be eligible, companies must have at least 500 employees as of Dec. 31 in the country and reductions in staff (including attrition and layoffs) can be no higher than 10% (based on LinkedIn data or public announcements). Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. All data counts are normalized based on company size across the pool of companies eligible for the list. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2020. All of the data used is aggregated and/or de-identified.

We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions and government agencies. We also exclude LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiaries.

About company insights

*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes full-time employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as interns or contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly or public filings, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn data. The insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from January 2021.