Homegrown tech and mobile Internet companies Directi, Flipkart, and One97 Communications Ltd (Paytm) grabbed the top three spots in LinkedIn's 2018 list of Top Companies to Work for. The annual ranking highlights the 25 companies in the country that are most sought-after by professionals, based on user data provided by more than 546+ million professionals on the professional networking platform.

E-commerce behemoth Amazon, which had placed Number Two in the last two years, dropped to the fourth spot, while home-grown cab aggregator, Ola, dropped 11 spots from its Number 5 ranking last year.

The list threw many surprises - the presence of three consulting firms in the top ten being a notable one. In fact Mckinsey & Co, which placed No.6 this year, has made a big jump from its 24th placing last year. Another surprise was young hospitality brand Oyo, whose disruptive practices have rattled the industry.

This year, more than 50 per cent of the companies on the list are new entrants including the topper Directi, founded by the Turakhia brothers, Anheuser-Busch InBev (#5), a Belgian brewing firm, Ernst & Young (#9) and Daimler Ag (#11).

Adobe and Reliance Industries, which were on the top ten list last year, have dropped down with Adobe taking 12th spot and Reliance the 24th spot.

The 2018 Top 10 Companies for India:

    Directi

    Flipkart

    One97 Communications (Paytm)

    Amazon

    Anheuser-Busch InBev

    Mckinsey & Co

    Alphabet (Google)

    KPMG India

    EY

    Oyo

LinkedIn created the ranking by measuring its users’ interest in a company’s jobs and people, as well as a company’s ability to retain its employees. Some of the metrics used included job demand (views and applications on a job post), engagement with the company (how many views for a career page of a company, followers), Connect Requests (how many non-employees were asking to be connected to a company's employees) and retention.

According to a LinkedIN spokesperson, a common theme at the Top Companies was employee-first strategies such as flexible hours, a good parental leave policy, and time-off to do more than work to attract and retain good talent.

In addition this year, the top companies had applied some unconventional hiring methods - (Directi cherry-picked talent using case studies, app development and solving the Rubik’s cube), had wellness strategies at the workplace and democratised power (Ola crowd-sourced ideas from its employees to design its five-loor office)

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