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 biot

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