The 35 hottest companies of 2018, according to LinkedIn

• Amazon took the top spot, beating out last year's top-ranked company, Alphabet.

• Tesla, Comcast, and Netflix all rose up in the rankings this year.

Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet are some of the biggest names in tech and business today. It's no surprise that plenty of Americans want to work there.

But where else do people want to get jobs nowadays? What are the hottest companies out there, in terms of attracting a large applicant pool?

That's the question that LinkedIn sought to answer in its top companies of 2018 report.

Using data collected from the job site's more than 546 million members, LinkedIn ranked the 50 companies that people in the US most want to work for.

The list's metrics included the rate at which users view and apply to a company's job openings, the number of followers and views a company's page accrues, employee retention, and the rate of non-employees asking to connect with a company's employees on the networking site.

The companies that ended up faring the best spanned industries, from tech giants to banking institutions.

Here are the top 35 companies on the list that people most want to work for:

35. Nike

34. Accenture

33. National Basketball Association

Based in New York City, the NBA is a men's professional basketball league based in North America.

32. Dropbox

Dropbox

31. Cisco

Based in San Jose, Cisco is a hardware and telecommunications giant.

Number of global workers: 73,711

30. Stryker

Stryker is a medical technology company that was founded in 1946.

Number of global workers:33,000

29. EY

28. Morgan Stanley

27. Live Nation Entertainment

Based in Beverly Hills, California, Live Nation Entertainment is an events promoter.

26. The Boston Consulting Group

25. PwC

Professional services firm PwC operates a network of firms in 157 countries.

Number of global workers: 236,235

24. Goldman Sachs

23. Verizon

Verizon

22. Deloitte

The "Big Four" accounting firm is based in New York City.

Number of global workers: 263,900

21. Samsung

20. IBM

19. LVMH

18. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

17. Dell Technologies

Based in Round Rock, Texas, Dell develops, sells, and supports personal computers.

Number of global employees:140,000

16. Time Warner Inc.

Time Warner, a mass media and entertainment conglomerate, was founded in 1990 and is based in New York City.

Number of global employees:25,000

15. Airbnb

Airbnb is a San Francisco-based online hospitality service that was founded in 2008.

Number of global employees:,000

14. Adobe

Adobe is a software company based in San Jose, California.

Number of global employees:

13. McKinsey & Company

Based in New York City, this worldwide management consulting form specializes in both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Number of global employees:25,000

12. Uber

Based in San Francisco, California, Uber is a transportation network company.

Number of global employees:15,000

11. Spotify

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify is a music streaming service that was first launched in 2008.

10. Netflix

Founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California, Netflix is an entertainment company.

Number of global employees:,500

9. Oracle

Oracle is a software company based in Redwood Shores, California.

8. The Walt Disney Company

Founded in 1923, the Burbank, California-based Walt Disney Company is the world's second largest mass media conglomerate.

Number of global employees:199,000

7. Comcast NBCUniversal

Media conglomerate Comcast NBCUniversal is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, New York.

Number of global employees:164,000

6. Apple

Based in Cupertino, California, Apple is the world's largest tech company by revenue.

Number of global employees:123,000

5. Tesla

Tesla is a Palo Alto, California-based US automaker and solar panel company that focuses on electric cars.

Number of global employees:37,000

4. Salesforce

Salesforce is based in San Francisco, California and primarily deals with cloud computing technology.

Number of global employees:,000

3. Facebook

Founded in 2004, Facebook is a social media service based in Menlo Park, California.

Number of global employees:

2. Alphabet

Alphabet, the company behind Google, is an American tech giant based in Mountain View, California.

Number of global employees:

1. Amazon

Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, Amazon is an online retailer based in Seattle, Washington.

Number of global employees:

The 35 hottest companies of 2018, according to LinkedIn

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