What are the first-and second-tier Internet companies?

I want to write an article about the R&D efficiency of Internet companies recently, but there is a question: What are the first-,second-and third-tier Internet companies? Is there a dividing standard? What level are Internet companies? It's better to hit the sun when choosing a day, so take this opportunity to think this question clearly. The following is just my personal understanding and classification criteria, I hope it will help you.

If you want to distinguish one, two, three Internet companies, you must first set a standard, and then list the companies you care about according to this standard. Zhihu blogger Zeng Jia put forward the following three factors:

1, the market value/valuation of the company, which represents the recognition of the company by the market, is the most important and accounts for the largest proportion (investors).

2. The influence of the company is mainly reflected in the number of users and the stickiness of users. , related to market value but not completely equivalent (user).

3. The attraction of the company is mainly reflected in the proportion of excellent practitioners (employees) who are willing to work in the company.

According to the standard of "market value/valuation is the most important", we get the following ranking:

There are several explanations.

If we define it as "unscientific, very subjective and rigid"

Then you can get the ranking list of market value/valuation.

Is this different from what your friend thinks? What if there are some discrepancies? I feel the same way. After thinking about it, I think it is mainly the first, second and third line Internet companies in everyone's mind. In fact, it is not entirely determined by the market value of the company, because most people go to earn wages, even if they get some stocks or options. No matter how big the company is, it doesn't meet our demands of making employees suffer. Although we use the products of these Internet companies as users and even buy and sell the stocks of these companies as investors, these have little influence on the decision-making and judgment of the company when looking for a job. Therefore, we generally adopt the influence ranking method in mind.

Ranking standard of influence ranking method

If you rank from the perspective of employees and look at the ranking criteria above, there will be different rankings. For ordinary employees, the most important thing is the attractiveness of the company, followed by the influence of the company, and the market value/valuation of the company is the last factor to consider.

For the first point, "the attractiveness of the company", employees at different levels and in different periods also have different weights when considering it. Some pursue more money, some pursue less things, some pursue being close to home, and some even pursue more money and less things. On the whole, it can be divided into the following aspects:

If you look at the ranking according to the above criteria and market value/valuation, you will find that some need to be adjusted.

List of influence ranking methods

So on the whole, Tencent, Ali and ByteDance are definitely in the first line, and Baidu is in the first line; Meituan and JD.COM can be placed on the first line or not, and we are placed on the second line with strict standards; But after JD.COM, it must be the second line. Although some companies are also outlets, they have a strong ability to make money, but there is still a big gap from the first-line Internet companies. So the ranking of influence is as follows:

Dear friends, what line of business do you care about and which companies can still rank among them?