Companies you won't read about on PDX Companies

There are two reasons that I will not write about certain notable employers in the Portland area. If there is a conflict of interest with my personal employer and/or if the company doesn't fit into my goal of exposing awesome employers in Portland that you haven't heard about.

Since you may still want links to these great employers, here you go:

• Mentor Graphics: Headquartered in Wilsonville, over 4,000 employee's, and over $750m in sales
• Sun Microsystems: They have a small office in Hillsboro. Many jobs at Sun can be based in any Sun office....including Hillsboro!
• Intel: Duh...they employ over 14,000 in Oregon.
• Synopsys: Though headquartered in Silicon Valley, they have over 300 positions in Hillsboro. The compete with Mentor Graphics.
  
• Netflix: It's a call center in Hillsboro but every major office needs employee's in all types of management positions (including "Director of Customer Service" that they are hiring for now).
• Adidas: You do know that their US Headquarters with approx 1,000 employees is in Portland, right?
• Columbia Sportswear: Headquartered in Beaverton, 2800 employee's in total and about 700 at their HQ....and did I mention $1.2 billion in sales?

So give some of these a shot and I'll be back in a day or two to profile a single employer that you need to know about!

Now take a guess about what industry I currently work in and which one I used to work in!