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Junior dev VS FAANMG dev (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can work in bioinformatics, the pay is lower than FAANG, but your code will benefit society.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Benefit society, or go to support a pharmaceutical company that will in some way benefit society in exchange for making a few people rich?

No ethical ~~consumption~~ working conditions under capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Bioinformatics isn't used only for medical research or within big companies. Sub-topics like metagenomics, that are helpful in many areas of research, require high level of technical knowledge, that the life science people don't have.