Business Today's latest (9th) Best Employer Survey has announced that HDFC Bank emerged as the country's 10th Best Company to Work For.

Infosys Techonologies tops the list. Google India, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, and Microsoft India are 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th respectively. Wipro, State Bank, Bharti Airtel, HP India and HDFC Bank make up the other half of the Top 10 (in that order).

Biggies who missed out the Top 10 include L&T (11th), Hindustan Unilever (12th), ONGC (13th), Tata Motors (14th), ITC (15th), ICICI (19th), and Tata Steel (20th).

Other highlights of the Survey:

• It is an employee Survey (of what an employee thinks of a company). In the past, direct company participation was sought.
• Almost 9,000 employees from across 1,000 organisations across 800 cities participated in the Survey.
• They were asked to rate companies on six key parameters, namely, Career & Personal Growth, Prestige/Company Reputation, Training/Coaching/Mentoring, Financial compensation & benefits, job content, and merit-based performance evaluation.
• Internet was the media for the Survey. Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc) was employed too.
• BFSI and Services accounted for over 10% of the respondents each, software over 14%, manufacturing over 17%, and ITES 9%. Education/training, core sector, telecom and health accounted for 6.7%, 5.7%, 4.4%, and 4.2% respectively. As much as 17% were from sectors other than these ("Others")