Couldn't agree more. To add to your last point: Industry is an area with a huge deficit of properly engineered software and often lacking basics things like ve

Couldn't agree more. To add to your last point: Industry is an area with a huge deficit of properly engineered software and often lacking basics things like version control and testing. Most manufacturing processes use code that an Automation Engineer with a bare minimum of CS training clicked together in Rockwell/Siemens software. There is no deployment pipeline or staging, data is often "copied" from ERP by typing it in and monitoring is some 20-year old custom solution done in Delphi or Visual Studio that just barely runs. The potential for software engineers there is gigantic. edit: obviously there is a bit of hyperbole here and there are exceptions, but this has been my experience.