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Biotech is big in the Bay Area. Perhaps your GF can identify openings, or neat people to speak with. The kind of skills you speak of remind me of the way that p

by k310 3y ago

Biotech is big in the Bay Area. Perhaps your GF can identify openings, or neat people to speak with. The kind of skills you speak of remind me of the way that perl infiltrated biotech like WD-40 infiltrates squeaky hinges. It just works. How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project https://bioperl.org/articles/How_Perl_saved_human_genome.html https://bioperl.org/articles/How_Perl_saved_human_genome.htm... Skip down to "I think several factors are responsible:" for the TLDR list. Now, this is not to say that perl is your ticket: just to say that organizations often have many "glue" chores that require scripting skills. From experience. Oh, and from experience, you may be able to pick up contract work to build skills and your CV.

throwawaymaths 3y ago
There may be a log of people in the industry, but biotech is not "big" in the Bay area. QoL for biotech is low due to cost of living and everyone there in biotech is sad that they aren't making as much as the developers. If you want to work in biotech, San Diego of Boston, or even something like dc, toronto or research triangle is a better choice. As for getting into tech, in the bay it's rather hard to break in unless you have a cs degree, or graduated from Stanford, or you are seen as cheap labor (South Asian), or possibly if you fill a DEI quota (but it was still hard[0] and not even that one anymore after belt tightening). Used to be easier. Not anymore. Good luck! You'll need it. Hustle hard. [0] I used to watch bay area startups harp about DEI and pass on perfectly good boot camp hirees and go for a white male from Stanford (actually never any good), but also all the non-asian diverse people I knew in personal life didn't have a problem getting tech jobs, so I have conflicting data. Watched an Asian male friend churn through 180+ job rejections over 9 months until I picked him up when I got hiring authority, he was perfectly good coder

by k310 3y ago

throwawaymaths 3y ago

There may be a log of people in the industry, but biotech is not "big" in the Bay area. QoL for biotech is low due to cost of living and everyone there in biotech is sad that they aren't making as much as the developers. If you want to work in biotech, San Diego of Boston, or even something like dc, toronto or research triangle is a better choice. As for getting into tech, in the bay it's rather hard to break in unless you have a cs degree, or graduated from Stanford, or you are seen as cheap labor (South Asian), or possibly if you fill a DEI quota (but it was still hard[0] and not even that one anymore after belt tightening). Used to be easier. Not anymore. Good luck! You'll need it. Hustle hard. [0] I used to watch bay area startups harp about DEI and pass on perfectly good boot camp hirees and go for a white male from Stanford (actually never any good), but also all the non-asian diverse people I knew in personal life didn't have a problem getting tech jobs, so I have conflicting data. Watched an Asian male friend churn through 180+ job rejections over 9 months until I picked him up when I got hiring authority, he was perfectly good coder