56 Best Fortune 500 Companies To Work For In California

Charles Schwab is an investment services firm that provides a full range of brokerage, banking and financial advisory services through its operating subsidiaries. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in San Francisco, California. The company has more total assets than any publicly traded investment services firm in the US and is a leader in asset management and retirement planning. About 18,700 employees work at Charles Schwab.

Adobe, established in 1982, is the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. Tools and services by Adobe enable its customers to create digital content, deploy it across media and devices, and then continually measure and optimize it based on user data. Adobe's mission is to change the world through digital experiences. The company has over 10,000 employees and has its headquarters in San Jose, CA.

Nvidia Corporation (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/ en-VID-ee-ə; more commonly referred to as Nvidia, stylized as NVIDIA, or, due to their logo, nVIDIA) is an American technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. It designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Its primary GPU product line, labeled "GeForce", is in direct competition with Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) "Radeon" products. Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld Shield Portable, Shield Tablet and Shield Android TV.

eBay, established in 1995, is a global commerce platform leader. The company's Marketplace platforms include its online marketplace at ebay. Com and the eBay mobile apps; and StubHub platforms comprise its online ticket platform at stubhub. Com. eBay connects millions of buyers and sellers around the globe. They equip sellers with the tools, solutions and support they need to grow their businesses and thrive. The company has over 14,000 employees and is based in San Jose, CA.

Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.

Cisco Systems, Inc., established in 1984, designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. The company's technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education, and other markets. Cisco System's core development areas are routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Today, the company has more than 71,000 employees worldwide. Its headquarters are located in San Jose, CA.

Salesforce is the Customer Success Platform that, along with social and mobile cloud technologies such as flagship sales and CRM applications, helps companies connect with customers, partners, and employees. Its innovative cloud-based platform and great customer service helped Salesforce become the world's fourth-largest software company. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, CA.

Gilead Sciences, Inc., commonly known as Gilead Sciences or Gilead (also styled GILEAD), is an American biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.

NetApp, Inc. is a hybrid cloud data services company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It has ranked in the Fortune 500 since 2012. Founded in 1992 with an IPO in 1995, NetApp offers hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation.

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Walt Disney or simply Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

1503251 Tesla, Inc. is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California.

Sempra Energy is an American natural gas utilities holding company based in San Diego, California. It divides its interests into two broad categories: California utilities, including Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E); and businesses not subject to California utilities regulation, chiefly Sempra International and Sempra U.S. Gas & Power.

Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software to enable the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones and televisions, and solar products. The company also supplies equipment to produce coatings for flexible electronics, packaging and other applications. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in Silicon Valley.

Visa is a global payments technology company working to enable consumers, businesses, banks and governments to use digital currency. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, this reputable multinational financial services corporation connects consumers, businesses, banks and governments in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. In 2013, the company's largest selling product lines were Neulasta/Neupogen, two closely related drugs used to prevent infections in patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy; and Enbrel, a tumor necrosis factor blocker used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. Other products include Epogen, Aranesp, Sensipar/Mimpara, Nplate, Vectibix, Prolia and XGEVA.

McKesson is a healthcare services and information technology company that aims to change the cost and quality of available health care services. The company partners with healthcare organizations of all types and supplies the healthcare industry with the resources needed to improve quality and efficiency. Solutions by McKesson include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information technology, and business and clinical services. The company was founded in 1833 and is headquarted in San Francisco, CA.

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an American investor-owned utility with publicly traded stock that is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco.

Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Lam Research Corporation is an American corporation that engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which involves the steps that create the active components of semiconductor devices (transistors, capacitors) and their wiring (interconnects).

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Media.

1451 The Hewlett-Packard Company or Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) is an international technical professional services firm.

Farmers Insurance Group is an American insurer group of automobiles, homes and small businesses. This privately owned and operated company also provides other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance has more than 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and approximately 21,000 employees. It is a subsidiary of the Swiss company Zurich Insurance Group.

Intel Corporation (commonly known as Intel and stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley and on 6 Campus Drive, Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.

Pacific Life & Annuity Company provides life insurance products, annuities, mutual funds, and various investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. It offers traditional and variable life insurance products, such as individual life insurance products, as well as family protection products; structured settlement annuities and general account GICs; and financial planning, retirement planning, and estate planning products. The company also provides educational information, including a list of articles and educational material relating to various investment and planning concepts, such as educational information, retirement concepts, life insurance concepts, estate planning concepts, basic investment concepts, and calculators, as well as taxes, glossary, and other; and health center services. It offers its products through a network of third party broker-dealers in the United States. Pacific Life & Annuity Company was formerly known as PM Group Life Insurance Company and changed its name to Pacific Life & Annuity Company in January 1999. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Newport Beach, California with locations in Aliso Viejo, California and Omaha, Nebraska. Pacific Life & Annuity Company operates as a subsidiary of Pacific Life Insurance Company.

Based in Oakland, California, The Clorox Company is an American worldwide manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products. With approximately 8,100 employees worldwide, Clorox markets some of the most trusted and recognized consumer brand names, including its namesake bleach and cleaning products; Pine-Sol(r) cleaners; Liquid Plumr(r) clog removers; Poett(r) home care products; Fresh Step(r) cat litter; and more.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (commonly referred to as HPE) is an American multinational enterprise information technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded on 1 November 2015 as part of splitting of the Hewlett-Packard company. HPE is a business-focused organization with two divisions: Enterprise Group, which works in servers, storage, networking, consulting and support, and Financial Services.

Franklin Resources Inc. is an American holding company that, together with its subsidiaries, is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments; it is a global investment firm founded in New York City in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN, in honor of Benjamin Franklin, for whom the company is named, and who was admired by founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. In 1973 the company's headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California. Today, Franklin Templeton Investments is one of the world's largest asset management groups with US$740 billion in assets under management (AUM) on behalf of private, professional and institutional investors as of March 31, 2017.

Molina Healthcare is a managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California. Established in 1980, this reputable institution has remained true to their mission of providing quality health services to financially vulnerable families and individuals covered by government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. Molina Healthcare has up to 10,000 employees and nearly $1 billion in revenue.

Qualcomm designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital communication products worldwide. Qualcomm pioneered 3G and 4G and now the company is leading the way to 5G. The company works in multiple industries from automotive and IoT to healthcare and security. Currently Qualcomm focuses on a single goal--invent mobile technology breakthroughs. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Avery Dennison Corporation is a global manufacturer and distributor of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials (such as self-adhesive labels), apparel branding labels and tags, RFID inlays, and specialty medical products. The company is a member of the Fortune 500 and is headquartered in Glendale, California.

Symantec Corporation is an American software company headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.

Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions worldwide. It offers its customers hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs), flash-based embedded storage products for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook PCs, security surveillance systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes, and other products. Western Digital solutions are marketed under the G-Technology(r), HGST, SanDisk(r), Tegile(r), Upthere(r) and WD(r) brands. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Ross Stores, Inc. is an American chain of off-price department stores headquartered in Dublin, California, officially operating under the brandname, Ross Dress for Less.

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First American, founded in 1889 in Santa Ana, CA, provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. Core business lines include title insurance and closing/settlement services; title plant management services; title and other real property records and images; valuation products and services; home warranty products, etc. First American Trust offers banking and trust services to the escrow and real estate industries.

Live Nation Entertainment is an American global entertainment company, formed from the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster in 2010. It owns, leases, operates, has booking rights for and/or equity interests in a large number of U.S. entertainment venues.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California.

Robert Half, most recently, Robert Half International, is an American human resource consulting firm based in Menlo Park, California. It is a member of the S&P 500, and is credited as being the world's first and largest accounting and finance staffing firm, with over 325 locations worldwide. In 2009, the company was ranked first in the temporary help industry on Fortune magazine's list of World's Most Admired Companies, and was ranked 9th by global staffing revenue.

AECOM (/eɪ.iːˈkɒm/ ay-ee-KOM) (formerly known as AECOM Technology Corporation) is an American multinational engineering firm that provides design, consulting, construction, and management services to a wide range of clients.

CBRE Group, Inc. is a commercial real estate services and investment firm. It is the largest company of its kind in the world. It is based in Los Angeles, California and operates more than 450 offices worldwide and has clients in more than 100 countries.

Gap Inc. is a global fashion business with five brands -- Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta and Intermix. The first Gap store was opened in 1969, now Gap has 3,300 company-operated stores, almost 400 franchise stores, and e-commerce sites, and its clothes are available in 90 countries worldwide. The company has more than 150,000 employees.

Sanmina Corporation is an American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in communications and computer hardware fields. The firm has nearly 80 manufacturing sites, and is one of the world's largest independent manufacturers of printed circuit boards and backplanes. It is ranked number 414 in the Fortune 500 list, and has been included in the list for the 16th year.

Core-Mark Holding Company (NASDAQ: CORE) distributes fresh, chilled and frozen merchandise mainly to convenience stores in the United States. It also provides associated business services such as category management and management of promotions.

Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California.

Reliance Steel and Aluminum Co. (RSAC), is the largest metals service center operator in North America and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company provides metals processing services and distributes a line of approximately 50,000 metal products, including aluminum, brass, alloy, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, and specialty metal products to fabricators, manufacturers, and other end users.

Edison International is a public utility holding company based in Rosemead, California.

Synnex Corporation, founded in 1980 by Robert T. Huang and based in Fremont, California, is an information technology supply chain services company offering services to original equipment manufacturers, software publishers and reseller customers. The president and CEO, as of November 2008, was Kevin M. Murai.

O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. Their distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of their book covers.

A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. is a precious metal trading company. The Company is a wholesaler of gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion and related products, including bars, wafers, grain and coins. It distributes gold and silver coins and bars f...