Bay Area is home to 19 of 50 top public companies where Americans want to work, LinkedIn says
LinkedIn and Microsoft are excluded to avoid any hint of bias in the results.
The rankings include some of the Bay Area's biggest tech employers, like
Cupertino-based Apple Inc.,
Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc.,
Mountain View-based Google parent Alphabet Inc.,
San Jose-based Adobe Inc. and Cisco Systems,
Los Gatos-based Netflix Inc.,
Palo Alto-based Tesla Inc.,
Santa Clara-based Intel Corp. and ServiceNow, and
Redwood City's Oracle Corp. and Box Inc.
Also on the list are some of San Francisco and the East Bay's largest employers, including Salesforce.com,
Twitter Inc.,
Dropbox, Inc.,
Splunk Inc.,
DocuSign, Inc.,
Workday, Inc and newly public
Lyft, Inc.