Great Pay; Horrible Software
Great Pay; Horrible Software
Compensation is the best in the Research Triangle area.
The code in the core routers (their main products) is terrible. In the words of one senior engineer, "our software is hacked out C code written by electrical engineers." That's all they understand, so we have to live with a mountain of spaghetti made up of 2,000-line routines.
Embrace new projects using more up-to-date languages.
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