North Carolina is booming in the world of tech. Those who have called the Triangle home for many years are fully aware that Raleigh-Durham has been a growing hub for research and innovation since the 1960s. Thanks to the 7,000-acre research and innovation center known as the Research Triangle Park, or RTP, major tech and healthcare companies have long known that the area is essentially the Silicon Valley of the East Coast.
Hundreds of global companies—including SAS, Red Hat, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, and Toshiba—have both drawn and kept talent in the Triangle. And while giants like Apple and Google are still new players within the area, they have long had a name for being outstanding companies with incredible benefits. Yet, smaller tech companies and startups similarly offer great benefits and the type of culture where employees thrive.
Keep these 10 tech companies on your radar if you’re on the hunt for a job you’ll love.
Pendo
Pendo, which is located in the heart of Raleigh, works with companies to improve their software. Consistently rated one of the top places to work in the Triangle, Pendo focuses on empowering employees. They offer generous health and wellness benefits for employees and their dependents. They provide up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, as well as a flexible schedule for those returning from leave. They also offer workday benefits like board game night, team karaoke, ping pong tables, and even lunch and learns and other development opportunities.
Constellation
Raleigh-based Constellation is a digital company that develops technology for credit unions and smaller community banks to be able to level up their digital service offerings. The company offers a collaborative environment with team lunches, ping pong tables, and Pelotons for employees. Remote work opportunities are available as well. Constellation also offers matching 401K contributions, and they cover 100 percent of employee healthcare.
Epic Games
Cary’s Epic Games is a video game company known for its popular games like Fortnite and Gears of War. The company offers a generous benefits package, including full medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage for employees and their dependents. They have a robust mental health program, offer profit sharing, and have a competitive match on employee 401k packages. They also offer unlimited PTO and sick time, plus they offer paid sabbaticals to celebrate an employee’s 7th year with the company.
GRAIL
GRAIL, located in the Research Triangle Park (RTP), develops innovative technologies to detect cancer early to save lives. They also believe in taking care of their employees, as well as those in need across the globe. The company offers childcare and parental leave benefits, and extensive healthcare benefits including health insurance, mental health and wellness programs, an onsite gym, and more. In addition to a matching 401k program, they offer company equity and a performance bonus. They also provide paid company shutdowns during the 4th of July and Christmas.
Baebies
Baebies, located in Durham, develops newborn screening and pediatric testing products to detect treatable health conditions in babies and children. The company develops lifesaving technologies for the medical community with the goal of providing children with a healthy start to life. In addition to its incredible mission, the company also offers a comprehensive benefits package, including full employee and dependent coverage for medical, vision, and dental. They match 401k investments, offer stock options, provide four weeks of PTO and paid holidays, and more. They also have a free, onsite gym employees can access.
Cloud Giants
The RTP-based company Cloud Giants is a Salesforce consulting partner that continues to be named one of the best places to work in the Triangle. The company believes in leading with kindness and regularly gives back through probono work and they focus on putting their people first. They also offer a generous benefits package, including healthcare coverage, unlimited PTO, 401k matching, paid parental leave, professional development and training opportunities, and candidate referral bonuses where it can literally pay to love your job!
Pairwise
Durham startup Pairwise focuses on gene-editing fruits and vegetables to make them more nutritious and full of flavor, all to make them more appealing to consumers. In addition to the comprehensive healthcare benefits package Pairwise offers, they provide employees with equity ownership in the company. In addition, they offer an employee assistance program, a 401k retirement plan, and flexible PTO.
AgBiome
RTP-based AgBiome works to develop innovative products that protect crops across the U.S. Regularly named one of “The Best Places to Work” by Inc. Magazine, the company offers a generous benefits package that includes paid parental leave, a 401k match, and separate vacation and PTO hours for its employees.
Adwerx
Adwerx is a Durham-based company that strives to make digital advertising easy for any business. Regularly named one of the top places to work in the Triangle, the company offers fully paid healthcare plans, company-paid parking, and a matching 401k. They also offer remote and flexible work options, education and leadership development opportunities, and events like team lunches, happy hours, and other activities that ensure a collaborative culture.
K4Connect
Morrisville startup K4Connect provides technology solutions for the organizations that older adults and individuals with disabilities frequent for their needs. Employees enjoy subsidized healthcare packages for the entire family, stock options, unlimited PTO, paid service leave, a free gym membership, happy hours, and more.
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