1. Samsung
Headquarters: South Korea
Number of employees: 489,000
Samsung Electronics, or simply Samsung, easily found its path to the top of our list of 15 largest private employers in the world with the amazing 489,000 people involved in the electronic industry. This enormous number of workforce easily released a great number of innovative home appliances, electronic and medical components and equipment, etc. It is the size of five Googles! The army of software engineers, 40,506 of them, is an indication of a progress and development in Samsung which took the world’s 2nd largest information technology company.