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I work as a software developer in RTP, and I really like it. (I'm in the Microsoft office, which by the way is hiring.) School districts can vary. I live in Ch
by noahl 7y ago
I work as a software developer in RTP, and I really like it. (I'm in the Microsoft office, which by the way is hiring.)
School districts can vary. I live in Chapel Hill, which has truly excellent schools. Durham can be hit or miss, and I don't know much about the Eastern triangle like Morrisville, Cary or Raleigh.
Other nice things about the area are that the food is generally really good, and it's easy to take a weekend trip to either the mountains or the coast, if you like that.
One downside is that there are lots of software engineering jobs, but the big internet companies for the most part aren't here, except for a small Google office in Chapel Hill and the Microsoft office, which is also fairly small. It was worth it for me to leave Google to live here, but YMMV.
I'd be happy to answer more questions if you have any.
- 76348930 7y agoThank you for your response. This is one of the reasons I come to HN, you were very helpful. Just curious, what sort of work/tech stack is Microsoft doing/using in RTP? What levels are they looking to hire?
- noahl 7y agoThe office is for Azure DevOps, our source code hosting / work item tracking / CI / CD / package hosting solution. I think we are looking to hire software engineers and senior software engineers, but if those titles don't fit you, I would say apply anyway. I personally would rather have a great person than the right title, and I suspect a lot of us feel the same. Feel free to email me if you have any more questions about Microsoft or the RTP area.
- 76348930 7y agoThank you so much for your extremely helpful responses and support.