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This is true. Biotech/Physics/Math grads getting into the ad-tech/SaaS grind kind of makes me sad though. Under-utlization of talent. No doubt there are interes
by systemvoltage 5y ago
This is true. Biotech/Physics/Math grads getting into the ad-tech/SaaS grind kind of makes me sad though. Under-utlization of talent. No doubt there are interesting challenges in literally every field, just that scientists are good at doing science - Design of Experiments, Theorizing stuff, grokking mathematics that would make me faint, etc. and the same people fucking around with webpack/JS tooling, learning how IAM works or spending their time on fixing CI/CD pipelines is depressing. We need some sort of a division of labor here.
- mrtranscendence 5y agoMy situation is slightly different from what you describe, but yeah, we have scientists and data scientists involved in writing Python packages, setting up CI/CD pipelines, dealing with auth and frontends for APIs. There's talk of dividing labor up a bit better so that we can focus on science and data work, but there's hardly enough engineering staff as it is and they're largely not much better from a software engineering perspective (and half of them hardly know any Python, which our non-engineers have 100% standardized on). It's kind of a mess right now.