I've known friends who did Bachelor's and PhD's in bio-engineering, computational biology, etc, worked in the lab one or two years, didn't find the career devel

I've known friends who did Bachelor's and PhD's in bio-engineering, computational biology, etc, worked in the lab one or two years, didn't find the career development aspect of things to be prosperous (this was 2005~2015), and then made the (often smooth, employment-wise) transition into the software industry and went on to become succesful product managers and CTOs. But I've never known of the reverse.