I recently graduated with a BS in CS at a mid tier school. I have done 4 ML internships, 2 at Big N (think salesforce, nvidia, Cisco), 1 at big pharma.
Been doing a lot of AI + digital pathology/Genomics research work.
I have deferred my Masters offers till next year (UCB, UCSD) bioeng/ML.
I got into healthcare/biotech cause I thought sciences are cool and wanna help patients, and AI seems like a good way. Cutting edge is also cool.
But I feel like the TC is peanuts compared to my SWE peers, and they also productionize way faster while I work on research projects that never make it to production (not gratification there). Getting tired of research, I want to build tangible products.
What should I do? Should I just pivot to SWE at a pure tech. Rn I’m interviewing with biotech startups like Insitro, neuralink as a compromise I’m hoping I work on more product related roles while at a cutting edge fast growth startup.
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My worry though is we have a fragmented system we making more fragmented because data regulation hasn’t changed. The flood gates need to open for interoperability
Walmart I consider as throwing in the towel because their healthcare plans were supposed to expand a lot faster. If you’re referring to the primary care clinics, Walmart has 20. CVS plans 1500 by end of the year. (https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/disruptors/how-clinics-at-walmart-walgreens-and-cvs-are-expanding-7-things-to-know.html)
Lastly, “not everyone needs to know how it’s enabled, that’s product”. Agreed, when your product is for the consumer. When your product is then serviced by front line to deliver to customers, you better hope your front line can deliver the service as expected rather than be a rogue element where the experience for the patient/customer fails. The front line need to either understand the system well enough to deal with the unexpected or get out of the way. And it’s easier displacing their responsibilities to code and better customer facing interfaces than to train.