Japan’s IT Engineers Top Ten Firms of Choice

Nikkei Human Resources Inc conducted a survey to learn where Japan's nerds, er, geeks, or IT engineers want to work.

1,173 engineers responded to the survey…

Aided by its "image as an overseas firm with winning technological prowess", number one

1 (-) Google 32.6

2 (3) IBM Japan 23.3

3 (1) Microsoft 22.8

4 (-) Canon 21.3

5 (7) Apple Japan 20.6

6 (5) NTT DoCoMo 20.0

7 (2) Nomura Research 19.7

8 (6) NTT Data 19.5

9 (8) Yahoo Japan 15.9

10 (10) Intel 15.9

The figures in the parentheses are the rankings last year, and (-) means first time in the ranking.

Nothing like jumping in at the top and working your way down, eh Google?