Besides the companies other people have mentioned (Cisco, RedHat, IBM), there are many others that either have long-established or are trying to grow their pres

Besides the companies other people have mentioned (Cisco, RedHat, IBM), there are many others that either have long-established or are trying to grow their presence in the Triangle area. Google (Chapel Hill -- small engineering office mostly used to recruit interns from UNC & Duke) Citrix (downtown Raleigh -- I think this is their biggest office outside Santa Clara, and they consistently have 50-75 job openings there) NetApp, Microsoft, Lenovo (their HQ), IBM (still a major presence even though it's shrunk a lot over the past decade), Genband/Avaya/Ciena (all created after Nortel's implosion), BASF, Bayer CropScience, SAS (HQ), John Deere, Credit Suisse, Cree (HQ), EMC, Fidelity Investments, RTI International, the US EPA, and many more. In biotech, there's, Pfizer, Biogen, Merck, UCB Biosciences, Quintiles, Parexel, PPD, United Therapeutics, Glaxo SmithKline, Syngenta, and many, many more pharmas & CROs.