I would say it's pretty good. This area has long had two primary economic anchors: software / digital tech, and life sciences / pharma. You have companies like IBM / Red Hat, SAS, Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. here, and a burgeoning startup scene on the "digital tech" front. In terms of life sciences, well, TBH, I can't name most of the companies because I don't work in that space. But lots of pharma stuff. Glaxo-Smith-Kline is probably the biggest and most well-known, but there are a ton of smaller players in that space around here. There's also a lot of the "tech jobs with non tech companies" stuff here. Big companies in fields like finance, insurance, logistics, etc. set up development shops here and do a lot of their software development and IT work locally. You have companies like MetLife, Credit Suisse, Fidelity, etc. here in that sense.

Good as far as I can tell! There’s quite a few conferences around the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, chapel hill). There’s also a lot of company campuses in the research parks and Pendo + Red Hat being headquarters downtown.