I work in a technology that's great to work in but has a bad reputation in places like HN because of irrational bias, there's no recession and salaries are still going up. Glad it keeps the competition away.
I'm going to guess Palantir or Anduril. Or similar.
Honestly they have some really interesting-looking roles open. I've also heard great things about working at Anduril and not-so great things about working at Palantir.
Well, those haters are just stupid. That ecosystem is probably better to work in now than it ever has been and both of those languages are have a great developer experience.
LINQ is powerful technology. Don't let anyone snub their noses at you.
If the only options for professional engagement were the languages popular with the HN commentariat (Python, Golang, Rust), I'd probably slit my wrists.
I've worked with loads of languages -- even PHP and Perl -- and would do it again without a second thought for the right company/project.
I work for a large consulting company that does work all around the world. From what I've seen, the midwest appears to have a pretty heavy use of .NET and other Microsoft technologies. Very large banking and insurance companies moving their .NET code bases to Azure. As you move further to the coasts, AWS takes over more as the cloud provider of choice for most enterprises and you see a lot more Java. Right now I'm looking for .NET + Azure architects in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois.
I can think of a lot of reasons why companies and startups would find it bad for their use cases tbh. It's hamstrung by microsoft licensing and ecosystem, and while building tools for enterprisey stuff is great, web-style startups are more of the focus here.
Honestly they have some really interesting-looking roles open. I've also heard great things about working at Anduril and not-so great things about working at Palantir.