LinkedIn names the "top attractors"

LinkedIn has compiled a list of the 40 best companies to work for in the world. The list was based on "actions of users", meaning the amount of job applications, employee engagement and new hire retention rate.

Out of the 40 companies, a whopping 21 were in the technology industry, including the top six companies. Here is the countdown of the best tech companies to work for, as rated by LinkedIn.

39. Honeywell

Honeywell has hired more than 1,700 military veterans since 2011. The company has 137,000 employees in total and its three main areas of focus include aerospace, automation and control solutions and performance material and technologies.

37. Philips

Last year, Philips invested 8 percent of its annual revenue in healthcare technology R&D, which is currently its largest business representing 45 percent of the company's total revenue.

The company says it aims to improve the lives of 3 billion people per year by 2025.

34. Accenture

Last year, Accenture invested just over AU$1 billion on employee training. The company has 373,000 employees and has banned the annual employee review. Instead, managers give constant feedback to staff.

33. Expedia

Expedia chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi looks for travellers when hiring and by asking candidates to describe how they dealt with something crazy that happened to them during a trip he is able to find people who can adapt to changes.

The company offers booking deals for its 19,382 employees starting at AU$330.

32. Twitter

Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey gave a third of his company's stock to employees weeks after taking the top role. At the time, that meant AU$269 million.

Twitter, which has 3,800 employees, also started to give full-time staff 20 weeks of paid parental leave.

31. Tesla

Tesla has currently 1,000 jobs listed on LinkedIn, according to the social media company. The electric vehicle manufacturer has 13,000 employees and is constantly hiring engineers who specialises in self-driving cars.

30. Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric believes in promoting its own staff instead of hiring external talent. The company has its own school and teaches engineers the technologies it is inventing.

Schneider Electric chief human resources officer and executive vice president Olivier Blum said: "To be considered an employer of choice by LinkedIn’s members is an important part of being an attractive employer. It is great to see that our newly defined Schneider Electric Employer Value Proposition, launched last year, is resonating so well with talent all over the world."

28. Huawei

Last year, Huawei invested AU$12 billion into its R&D unit, which employs 45 percent of the 170,000 employees.

The Chinese company plans to take Samsung's place as the number one smartphone vendor within the next five years, and overtake Apple in half that time.

27. Siemens

Siemens offers education opportunities to its 348,000 employees located across 190 countries. The company also offers paid internship in 20 countries and hopes potential employees see it as “a cool place”.

26. Dell

Dell has been pushing for flexible schedules to be adopted by employees. Up to 25 percent of the company's 100,000 employees are already setting their own working hours. The company aims to have half of its work force on flexible schedules by 2020.

In October 2015, Dell announced the acquisition of EMC for AU$90 billion. EMC also ranked high in the Top Attractors list for its generous benefits.

22. Cisco

In March, Cisco restructured its team of 25,000 engineers into four new units covering the most critical areas for the company - networking, cloud services and platforms, security and applications and IoT. Cisco also hired new talent and is encouraging its 72,000 employees to continue innovating.

20. IBM

IBM's workforce consists of 377,000 employees, ranging from healthcare to weather prediction.

15. Adobe

Adobe's Kickbox program offers employs US$1,000 to refine their next potential product. The software company also hosts "experience-a-thons" for its 14,000 staff to test and rate Adobe products before they launch.

13. Deloitte

Deloitte is one of the most in-demand employers in technology, receiving 1.9 million job applications per year. The technology consultancy's 225,000 staffers spent over 820,000 hours volunteering in 2015.

11. Oracle

Oracle has been quietly filling out its workforce with a new generation of employees, with 38 percent of staff now millennials. The software company also runs the Injured Veterans Internship Program, which offers paid internships to injured military veterans.

6. Microsoft

LinkedIn employees will be in for a treat now that Microsoft has bought the company for AU$34 billion (US$26 billion). The company employs 118,000 employees in 200 locations. The company offers personal development resources such as career mentoring, coaching and 2,000 training programs.

The Redmond giant offers employees restaurants, cafes, gyms, and 37 different espresso stands.

5. Amazon

Amazon survived a damning report from the New York Times last year slamming its workplace practices, which was refuted by a former Amazon engineer. Job applications were up 25 percent last year.

The online retailer and cloud provider will pay 95 percent of an employee's tuition for in-demand skills.

4. Google

Google has become famous for its employee perks and laissez faire work environment. Its 60,000 employees are treated to endless supplies of food and on-site massages on a never-ending quest to achieve staff happiness.

3. Facebook

One of the pioneers of the lavish Silicon Valley startup culture, Facebook's success has translated into employee perks.

The social media giant offers full-time staffers four months paid parent leave.

2. Salesforce

Salesforce reportedly took advice from Buddhist monks when designing its San Francisco office, who suggested incorporating "mindfulness zones" and meditation spaces for employees to unwind.

A Salesforce spokesperson told LinkedIn: “Employees can't guide customers to success if they aren't first taking care of themselves.”

The software company employs 20,000 staff. Last year, the cloud software company extended its paid volunteer time off from six days to seven.

1. Apple

Last year, Apple announced an initiative to grant employees access to restricted stock units. The initiative not only lets Apple's corporate employees become shareholders, but retail and AppleCare staffers as well.

As of July 2015, Apple employed approximately 115,000 people globally. According to LinkedIn, Apple's retail staff retention rate is 81 percent.