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Top companies in Seattle

Cloud, ecommerce, gaming, and biotech anchored by Amazon and Microsoft.

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Ranked by current headcount across companies headquartered in Seattle. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Amazon· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Grant
    • 761.9k employees
    • Founded 1994
  2. 2
    Starbucks· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 191.5k employees
    • Founded 1971
  3. 3
    Costco Wholesale· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • 87.4k employees
    • Founded 1983
  4. 4
    Nordstrom· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 48.3k employees
    • Founded 1901
  5. 5
    University of Washington· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Corporate
    • 32.2k employees
    • Founded 2012
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Seattle is one of the densest markets for technology talent in the world. The list above ranks the largest companies headquartered in Seattle by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 3,332 matching companies in our index, the depth of engineers, designers, product managers, and founders is broad across stages and industries.

Hiring in Seattle usually means hiring out of these companies. The biggest names anchor the talent pool - every senior engineer in Seattle likely has at least one of them on their resume - and the fast-growing ones generate the most movement.

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Refolk pulled the largest companies headquartered in Seattle from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 25 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

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