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Current Broad SWE with 5 years’ tenure. Feel free to ask any questions.

I’m in the “bunch of software people together” department so it’s not as insular or PI driven as working in a lab.

I still mostly like the role but it has become more generic over the years as the department acquiesced to the working ways & programming languages of outside private funders.

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1. Could you share a bit about your stack? I'd be specially interested about the data engineering side of things if possible.

2. As a SWE, how deep into biology/genetics concepts have you had to go during your tenure?

1. I'm on the product engineering side rather than data, but from what I know, Scala is still heavily entrenched. New projects are all in Java; other languages are effectively disallowed.

2. I learned a fair amount in the 2017-2019 time frame but with the pandemic and increased specialization my pace has decreased. Lunchtime talks are just not as fun to attend on Zoom. Another possible explanation is that my curiosity has been satisfied, and someone with more curiosity could get more out of it.

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