10 of the Top Companies for Engineering and IT Students

Google, IBM, Apple and alike are the mecca for engineering and IT students. Craving a job in one of these companies has become the ultimate goal. Whereas young engineering and IT students can aim other celebrated companies. Besides the conventional new economy tech corporations, there are some other star performer companies where an engineer or IT enthusiast can have his job.  However, in this article, we enlisted 10 of the top companies for engineering and IT students. Moreover, the piece contains some of the employers that are mostly targeted by business grads.     

General Electric Company

General Electric Company [GE] started its business in 1886. Headquarter of this American multinational conglomerate corporation is in Boston, Massachusetts. According to Brand Finance, an independent branded business valuation consultancy GE has a brand value of $29,211 million.  In fact, working in energy, healthcare, transportation and infrastructure, GE operates its business nearly in 180 countries. It employs more than 300,000 people.  

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational finance company. Despite being widely famous for its banking and financing activities, it employs a good number of engineers. click the link to learn career opportunities in engineering at Goldman Sachs.   As a matter of fact, having a market value of $9,738 million, the company employs 34,400 (2016) employees.

BOSCH

Robert Bosch GmbH (Bosch) is a German multinational engineering and electronics company. Headquarter of this largest (by revenue) automotive components supplier is in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It has 120 engineering locations worldwide. In fact, the company is a monastery for brilliant engineers.  As of 31^st December 2016, the giant has 390,000 employees.

Accenture

Accenture PLC is a global management consulting and professional services company. Additionally, it provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services. However, the Fortune Global 500 company works in 120 countries and home for 411,000 (2017) employees.

McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company is also a worldwide management consulting firm. It conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis in order to evaluate management decisions across the public and private sectors. Actually, The New York Times says McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious management consultancy. The company houses 14000 employees.

Siemens

Siemens AG is the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe. Around 362,000 employees work in this German conglomerate company. As Siemens financial report displays, it made a revenue of around €75.6 billion in 2015.

JP Morgan

The U.S. multinational banking and financial services holding company JP Morgan Chase & Co. is the sixth-largest bank in the world, by total assets. As of 2016, it made 95.66 billion USD as revenue. According to Glassdoor, the typical J.P. Morgan Engineer salary is $99,893. In reality, Engineer salaries at J.P. Morgan can range from $70,628-$123,316. 

Ernst & Young

EY is a multinational professional services firm. As a matter of fact, EY is one of the largest professional services firm in the world. Moreover, it’s one of the “Big Four” accounting firms. The firms offer different types of engineering jobs. 231,000 employees currently work in the firm. EY made a revenue of $29.6 in 2016.

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