Just a quick aside: I'm in biotech/medtech and hardware engineering. A lot of the comments here are about software engineering in SV. Here in biotech-land the a

Just a quick aside: I'm in biotech/medtech and hardware engineering. A lot of the comments here are about software engineering in SV. Here in biotech-land the average salary, even in the Bay, is about $80k. Granted, we don't have as many start-ups as the FDA puts a hell of a damper on things.