SpaceX, Google and Tesla are among the top companies techies want to work for

Attracting talent is paramount for tech companies. They compete with one another for incremental technological gains over their competitors, so maintaining a good image with potential employees can have major implications on their business.

To see which employers are most likely to get the candidates they want, job website Hired asked 2,349 tech workers to rate major tech companies headquartered in their cities by their level of interest in working there. Survey takers could also write in and rate employers in other cities.

SpaceX, Google, Shopify, Tesla and Netflix top the global list of employers that Hired users — software engineers, product managers and data scientists — want to work for. Lyft made the Top 10 rankings but Uber did not (Hired did not provide a list of the worst-rated companies).

Top 10 most attractive companies for tech workers by city

Rank	Global Rank	Austin	Boston	Chicago	Denver	Los Angeles	New York	San Francisco	Seattle	Washington, D.C.
Rank	Global Rank	Austin	Boston	Chicago	Denver	Los Angeles	New York	San Francisco	Seattle	Washington, D.C.
1	SpaceX	Indeed	TripAdvisor	Boeing	SendGrid	SpaceX	Squarespace	Google	Redfin	Capital One
2	Google	HomeAway	Bose	Grubhub	Tendril	Hulu	Bloomberg	Tesla	Zillow Group	CustomInk
3	Shopify	RetailMeNot	Akamai	Sprout Social	Arrow Electronics	Hyperloop One	Tumblr	Netflix	Amazon	Lockheed Martin
4	Tesla	Silicon Labs	HubSpot	Peapod	Level 3 Communications	Virgin Galactic	Vice	Slack	Microsoft	Applied Predictive Technologies
5	Netflix	SolarWinds	athenahealth	Trunk Club	DigitalGlobe	Snapchat	Bitly	Facebook	Blue Origin	Booz Allen Hamilton
6	Slack	Bazaarvoice	Wayfair	Uptake	Healthgrades	Riot Games	Datadog	Lyft	Alaska Airlines	Upside
7	Atlassian	uShip	MathWorks	Groupon	Ibotta	Fandango	MLB Advanced Media	GitHub	OfferUp	Appian
8	Hulu	WP Engine	Toast	Fooda	HomeAdvisor	Tinder	SoulCycle	Salesforce	Costco	Social Tables
9	Facebook	Spredfast	Education First	Avant	Gogo Business Aviation	Dollar Shave Club	Teachers Pay Teachers	Yelp	F5 Networks	Optoro
10	Lyft	Dell	CarGurus	Cars.com	Four Winds Interactive	eHarmony	New York Life	Asana	Auth0	EVERFI

Source: Hired

Google was rated the most attractive employer in the Bay Area, Squarespace was the highest rated in New York, while Redfin was No. 1 in Seattle (Amazon was ranked third there).

Within its report, Hired also included proprietary data about the rate at which employees accept interview requests for certain companies. This information is not factored into the survey results.

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