Fortune names 100 best companies to work for

(Reuters) - NetApp tops the list of the 100 best companies to work for, most of which are still hiring, Fortune magazine said on Thursday.

Following are the first 50 of the 100 companies on the 12th annual list compiled by Fortune and published on its Web site fortune.com/bestcompanies.

1. NetApp

2. Edward Jones

3. Boston Consulting Group

4. Google

5. Wegmans Food Markets

6. Cisco Food Systems

7. Genentech

8. Methodist Hospital System

9. Goldman Sachs & Co

10. Nugget Market

11. Adobe Systems

12. Recreational Equipment (REI)

13. Devon Energy

14. Robert W. Baird

15. W.L. Gore & Associates

16. Qualcomm

17. Principal Financial Group

18. Shared Technologies

19. OhioHealth

20. SAS

21. Arnold & Porter

22. Whole Foods Market

23. Zappos.com

24. Starbucks

25. Johnson Financial Group

26. Aflac 2

7. QuikTrip

28. PCL Construction Enterprises

29. Quicken Loans

30. Bingham McCutchen

31. CarMax

32. Container Store

33. JM Family Enterprises

34. Umpqua Bank

35. Kimley-Horn & Associates

36. Alston & Bird

37. TDIndustries

38. Microsoft

39. Paychex

40. EOG Resources

41. Camden Property Trust

42. Plante & Moran

43. Rackspace Hosting

44. NuStar Energy

45. King’s Daughters Medical Center

46. American Fidelity Assurance

47. DreamWorks Animation SKG

48. Mattel

49. Intuit

50. Burns & McDonnell

(Compiled by Ellen Wulfhorst)