By "fastest growing" they mean by employee headcount:
> Understanding employee growth numbers: Employee growth measures how fast the number of employees has grown. i.e. 100% employee growth in 1-year would mean the company has doubled in size in the last year. 200% employee growth would mean the company has tripled in size.
Revenue growth is a better metric to use for figuring out where to apply to.
>Revenue growth is a better metric to use for figuring out where to apply to.
Perhaps revenue-growth and headcount-growth are proxies for different aspects of the company?
For example, revenue-growth might signal how long the positions are likely to last, and maybe something about chances of the company being acquired.
Whereas headcount-growth may be a better signal regarding how much the organizational / management structures will need to change, and what the odds are for carving out your own role amidst the chaos.
They're proxies, yes. Headcount is an easier number to come by because companies (misguidedly?) think that "we quadrupled our headcount in the last 12 months!" is something to brag about, so they're more public with these numbers than with revenue / cost numbers.
Yeah if you're okay playing game of thrones and don't particularly care that the company you work at might not be serving a viable market, headcount is a good metric to go by.
Thanks for taking the time to check out this list and for commenting about it :).
Revenue growth and profit growth would be awesome metrics to have but those aren't publicly available for most of the companies on the list.
I think employee growth is the best objective metric because it captures fundraising and/or profit growth in one combined metric (because companies that are hiring either raised money, are making money, or perhaps aren't good at running their business).
This is really just a starter metric to compare thousands of companies to each other but obviously if you were going to join one of these companies you would want to do much deeper due diligence.
> Understanding employee growth numbers: Employee growth measures how fast the number of employees has grown. i.e. 100% employee growth in 1-year would mean the company has doubled in size in the last year. 200% employee growth would mean the company has tripled in size.
Revenue growth is a better metric to use for figuring out where to apply to.