My first job offer out of college for compsci was for a genomics research company that desperately needed software engineers. At the time they were storing sequ

My first job offer out of college for compsci was for a genomics research company that desperately needed software engineers. At the time they were storing sequences as ATGC strings in an oracle database using perl scripts. It was really below even undergraduate-level basic stuff. The offer was $38k a year. About two days later, I got my second offer, $50k from a game company, and then a real offer, $60k, which I took. This was in the late 1990s. That was 20+ years ago, of course, but I sort of wonder if things have changed. I frankly think a lot of SWE work for fundamentally evil, socially destructive companies, and I honestly don't think you have to to earn a good living, but you also don't have to work for companies that deliriously underpay you.