Having recently moved to the Raleigh, NC I'm considering looking for local employment (was able to arrange my current employment to allow my move here without changing jobs). What are the companies in the Raleigh, NC area that people here might recommend? Microsoft, Red Hat, etc of course, but what others should I check for open positions at? Current: Technical Lead/Sr. Software Engineer - 6 yoe Primary experience is in pure desktop applications - slowly moving into web based technologies (but dying to learn what is the gold standard nowadays for employment).
There is a salesforce office as well but not too big.
Microsoft
Netapp, Synopsys, Nvidia
raleigh area salaries are low. I was at IBM for 2 years. its a shitshow but they will pay for talent. health insurance cost me 900 per month and was absolute trash
look for sf startups adding an engineering office in NC - they will pay better and have better benefits
LexisNexis
Cisco, IBM , Lenovo. Pretty much any company in RTP
You mention IBM, any insight into that culture? From what I have heard, second hand, they do not pay well and their benefits lag a lot.