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How do you find companies working on important problems? When I look at the London software scene, I mostly find trivial (or dull corporate) web and mobile apps.

Which kinds of industries have software engineers working on real technology problems?

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Just in UK, I can think of Sanger Institute (genomics research), Malaria Consortium (GIS involved in real-time malaria drug resistance monitoring), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (USB stick genome sequencing for clinical diagnosis); The Children's Investment Hedge Fund (used to be the hedge fund arm of the Children's Fund). AstroZeneca and Glaxo also have wet and dry lab spaces with lots of informatics needs. I am positive there are tons more but I am only mostly familiar with the biotech space.

Big, old, "boring" companies. Academia.

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