>That's true, but what about the software engineers who do build world-changing stuff? Yeah I can get behind that. I work in biotech/cancer diagnostics/prognos

>That's true, but what about the software engineers who do build world-changing stuff? Yeah I can get behind that. I work in biotech/cancer diagnostics/prognostics and we could definitely afford a higher standard, especially around the core stuff (e.g. the CV/algorithms people, but also the typical IT end of things.)