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Because it's not what sells. It's literally a tool, and if you don't deliver the level of perfection they're used to get from sequencing, NMR or assay testing m
by tgv 4y ago
Because it's not what sells. It's literally a tool, and if you don't deliver the level of perfection they're used to get from sequencing, NMR or assay testing machines, you're the PITA. You really have to bring something very interesting to the table to earn some status, and software engineering just doesn't. It's too far from the core business. Think of the attitude SWEs have towards sales people...
- firstplacelast 4y agoThe thing is many will pay big bucks to contractors/consultants/IT services/LIMS systems, but if you’re an employee, nope. They have a hard time having someone with a BS or MS making 50-75k more than a freshly-minted PhD. I just left a job in pharma because I cannot do it anymore (salary being a big one, but my experiences reflect many in this thread). They spent 500k on a consulting company to build a few NGS processing pipelines. This was built using a framework I was unfamiliar with. I re-factored one of them and was able to increase runtime by 60% in a couple weeks. I was paid in the low 100’s. They would rather contract out the high-paid work and pay orders of magnitude more for it.