Top Companies 2022: The 15 best workplaces to grow your career in Singapore

LinkedIn Top Companies is a ranking of the 15 companies that are investing in their talent and helping people build careers that will set them up for long-term success.

The world of work continues to transform in front of our eyes. As professionals moved jobs at unprecedented rates in 2021, companies have had to step up to attract and retain talent — from offering more opportunities to get promoted and gain new skills to increasing flexibility. These changes have put employees and job seekers in the driver’s seat, igniting them to rethink what they expect out of an employer today.

Our 2022 LinkedIn Top Companies list is the 2nd annual ranking of the 15 best workplaces to grow your career, all based on unique LinkedIn data. These are the companies that are offering stability in our ever-changing world of work — the ones that are not only attracting employees, but retaining them. 

To put together this year’s rankings, we looked at LinkedIn data across seven pillars, each revealing an important element of career progression: ability to advance, skills growth, company stability, external opportunity, company affinity, gender diversity and spread of educational backgrounds. You can learn more about our methodology at the bottom of this article. 

This list is meant to be a resource for you, guiding professionals at every stage — whether that means a career pivot, jumping back into the workforce after a hiatus or investing in new skills. At each company, you’ll find insights around which roles and skills are in demand, top locations and much more. You can also explore open jobs (many of which are remote positions) and people you may know at the company. If a company catches your eye, follow their company page and/or turn on job alerts to stay on top of future opportunities. 

Here are this year’s 15 #LinkedInTopCompanies in Singapore

Singapore Headcount: 700 | Most notable skills: Brand Marketing, Market Planning, Product Innovation | Most common job titles: Senior Market Research Manager, Global Brand Manager, Global Brand Director | Largest job functions: Marketing, Operations, Finance | What you should know: In November 2021, Unilever Singapore transformed their workplace to a permanent hybrid working arrangement and redesigned their office space to meet the needs of their workforce and business. At the new office, employees can expect quiet ‘focus zones’ with height-adjustable desks, open collaboration spaces and ‘project squad rooms’ for igniting creative teamwork. Unilever Singapore was awarded the Enabling Mark Award which recognises organisations paving the way for a more inclusive society. 

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Singapore Headcount: 10,000 | Most notable skills: Banking, Operational Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance | Most common job titles: Business Analyst, Product Owner, Managing Director | Largest job functions: Finance, Business Development, Information Technology | What you should know: Standard Chartered Singapore invested S$5 million in diSCover Lab, a global learning hub aiming to train and upskill 8,000 employees by 2022. They will partner with Microsoft (LinkedIn’s parent) and IBM to build a local tech talent pipeline. The Work Study and SGUnited Traineeship Programmes provide career opportunities for students. Standard Chartered is investing S$500 million in buy now pay later (BNPL) firm Atome Financial over a 10-year partnership, expanding its reach in fintech.

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Prudential Assurance Company Singapore is a division of Prudential plc

Singapore Headcount: 1,180 | Most notable skills: Retirement Planning, Wealth Accumulation, Data Governance | Most common job titles: Financial Consultant, Financial Advisor, Financial Services Manager | Largest job functions: Finance, Information Technology, Business Development | What you should know: To help upskill and reskill employees, Prudential Singapore partnered with Ngee Ann Polytechnic to develop “future skills”. Prudential employees are now able to learn in-demand digital skill sets such as “Machine Learning for Humans” and “AI in Finance” to adopt for the future of work.

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Singapore Headcount: 10,320 | Most notable skills: Banking, Wealth Management, Retirement Planning | Most common job titles: Personal Financial Consultant, Relationship Manager, Premier Client Manager | Largest job functions: Finance, Sales, Information Technology | What you should know: OCBC Bank Singapore is accelerating its OCBC Future Smart Programme to focus on digitalisation for its employees and new trainees. The S$20 million investment program has so far created more than 50 sustainability-related jobs over the last two years. Some 1,900 sustainability training programs have been launched for OCBC’s 30,000 employees.

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Singapore Headcount: 12,590 | Most notable skills: Banking, Wealth Management, Design Thinking | Most common job titles: Wealth Manager, Relationship Manager, Business Analyst  | Largest job functions: Finance, Engineering, Information Technology | What you should know: During the pandemic, DBS Bank implemented a permanent hybrid work model to give employees the option to work remotely up to 40 percent of the time. The company also transformed its workspaces and launched a 5,000-square foot "Living Lab" that aims to blend the best of physical and virtual work space configurations. The bank is also accelerating employee upskilling with 7,200 employees to undergo training such as design thinking, data and analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and agile practices.

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Alphabet is the parent company of Google, Waymo and others.

Global Headcount: 156,500 | Most notable skills: Video Editing, Google Data Studio, Program Management | Most common job titles: Program Manager, Senior Data Scientist, Software Engineer | Largest job functions: Engineering, Marketing, Sales

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Singapore Headcount: 1,160 | Most notable skills: Management, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel | Most common job titles: Marketing Director, Quality Engineer, Senior Accountant | Largest job functions: Operations, Marketing, Sales

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Global Headcount: 674,000 | Most notable skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), System Migration, Business Process Design | Most common job titles: Business Integration Analyst, Application Developer, Business Integration Manager | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Engineering, Business Development

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Sea is the parent company of Garena, Shopee and SeaMoney.

Singapore Headcount: 3,000 | Most notable skills: Product Management, Redis, E-commerce | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Product Manager, Data Scientist | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Product Management

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Singapore Headcount: 2,850 | Most notable skills: Go (Programming Language), Terraform, Zendesk | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Senior Data Scientist, Food Delivery Driver | Largest job functions: Engineering, Operations, Information Technology

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Global Headcount: 280,000 | Most notable skills: Cloud Computing, Design Thinking, Hybrid Cloud | Most common job titles: Project Manager, Software Engineer, Solutions Architect | Largest job functions: Information Technology, Engineering, Sales

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Singapore Headcount: 1,000 | Most notable skills: Retirement Planning, Financial Planning, Wealth Accumulation | Most common job titles: Financial Services Consultant, Financial Advisor, Wealth Manager | Largest job functions: Finance, Sales, Information Technology

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Singapore Headcount: 3,400 | Most notable skills: Financial Statement Auditing, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Corporate Tax, Financial Audits | Most common job titles: Senior Auditor, Audit Manager, Tax Associate | Largest job functions: Accounting, Finance, Information Technology

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Singapore Headcount: 1,000 | Most notable skills: Data Analysis, Leadership, Management | Most common job titles: Biotechnologist, Drug Safety Specialist, Quality Assurance Specialist | Largest job functions: Research, Operations, Information Technology

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Singapore Headcount: 3,500 | Most notable skills: Banking, Derivatives, Spring Boot | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Project Manager, Major Incident Manager | Largest job functions: Engineering, Finance, Information Technology

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You can also check out the Top Companies in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the U.K., U.S. and the UAE. 

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Methodology

Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on seven pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity and educational background. Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardised job titles. Skills growth looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed at the company, using standardised LinkedIn skills. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year, as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company at least three years. External opportunity looks at Recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signaling demand for workers coming from these companies. Company affinity, which seeks to measure how supportive a company’s culture is, looks at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for company size. Gender diversity measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries. Finally, educational background examines the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree up to Ph.D. levels, reflecting a commitment to recruiting a wide range of professionals. 

To be eligible, companies must have had at least 500 employees as of Dec. 31, 2021 in the country and attrition can be no higher than 10% over the methodology time period, based on LinkedIn data. Similarly, companies with layoffs during that time that amount to more than 10% of their workforce, based on public announcements, are also ineligible. Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. Certain data counts — like gender diversity and educational background — are normalized based on company size across the pool of companies eligible for the list. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2021 through Dec. 31, 2021. All of the data used is aggregated and/or de-identified.

We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions and government agencies. We also exclude LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiaries.

Correction: Certain data counts were normalized for company size. The previous version stated that all data counts were normalized for company size.

About company insights

*Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as interns or contractors. Headcounts are provided by the companies directly or public filings, unless otherwise noted with an asterisk. Those headcounts are based on LinkedIn data. All insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from January 2022. Top locations were categorized as the regions or cities that employed the largest percentage of each company. Skills data was derived from measuring the most frequent unique skills among a company’s employees, relative to other companies. Most common job titles represent the occupations that are most common within each company. Largest job function measures the function area most prevalent within each company. 

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Reported by: Satoshi Ebitani, Serla Rusli, and Yunita Ong

Methodology and insights by: LinkedIn Economic Graph team