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If RSEs are actually valuable but under-compensated, can someone please disrupt this industry? Would love to see more startup medicine development companies ..

If RSEs are actually valuable but under-compensated, can someone please disrupt this industry? Would love to see more startup medicine development companies ... Alternatively, would it make sense to provide RSE services as a company, for very high hourly rates, separately from the rest of the university, so status and rules are less of a problem?

kyawzazaw 4y ago
There are a few like these: 1. Benchling 2. Enable Medicine 3. Radix.bio
mike_hearn 4y ago
The reason they're under-compensated is that they aren't valued, unfortunately. A lot of scientists are self taught programmers and don't know what they don't know. The other issue is that if you say you should spend half your departments budget on hiring much better paid software developers, it looks really bad: a. You're implying your colleagues are incompetent. b. You can't use that money for "science". c. It puts in painful relief that the software guys are much better paid than you are, implying that their work is more valuable than yours. But a lot of scientists put up with low pay because they believe their work is really valuable.