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An office manager with a BS in Biomedical Engineering...Wow

Biomedical engineering Bachelor degrees frequently have poor job outcomes, they are a few different subjects combined into one degree which leaves little room for depth. My understanding is medical device companies would actually prefer to hire electrical, computer, or mechanical engineering degree holders at the undergraduate level. You also don't qualify for engineering positions in the aforementioned engineering fields either.

Reporting in with my own anecdote: I have totally opposite experiences.

I was at a medically-oriented place where there were a few pure EE engineers, and there was a lot of frustration by higher-ups for the EE's being clueless about medical things. The biomedical engineers were okay.

You have a strange way of congratulating someone who achieved what they consider to be happiness.

Just wondering...does that tell us more about office managers, or about Biomedical Engineering ?

Neither? It tells us about Steven Pham.

Great answer. It's just a data point. There is no evidence that P(office manager, biomedical engineering) != P(office manager) * P(biomedical engineering).

I was a Production Manager at a Medical Device company here in the Bay area previously for almost 3 years. Wanted a change of scenery so I started helping Garry out.

From there, I started helping out with events and tech/ops at YC and joined the team to help out internally, officially (Tara and co have been doing so much already)! All I've got to say is I came for the experience, and stayed for the community.

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