This really is a testament to how badly technology is needed in the medical field to document and cross reference these sorts of cases. It's hard to think of such an important industry being so disconnected in such a highly connected era.
Thanks for clarifying. It's unfortunate for me financially, but I think the best thing to do is to withdraw my acceptance of the offer. I will be candid with them about allowing myself to accept a position that doesn't align with my interests. They made an exploding offer over 1 year before I even graduated.
I'll admit it I regret accepting the offer so willingly. It was an exploding offer and they gave me about a week to accept. This was one whole year before I even graduated. I'm sure this has allowed them to lock me in at a lower salary than what they are offering new hires now as well. The whole situation just makes me feel a bit bitter about the job. It was definitely a learning experience for me and I wont make that mistake again. Just trying to figure out what to do now. I don't want to establish a career in a field I'm not interested and lose the momentum I've already gained in my field of interest.
Thanks for the advice. It's definitely been a learning experience. At this particular employer, they just fit engineers into a generic Software Engineering Role, and the team you end up on is determined by business need close to your start date. My team has already changed once without them even informing me (I had found out by asking if any other teams had opened up) and I haven't even started yet.
Thanks for the advice. Would the correct thing for me to do be to withdraw my acceptance of said offer? It's hard for me to explain how I know I'll dislike what I'll be doing without revealing the company.
Hmm I should have thought my question out more throughly before I wrote. I don't think they're doing anything illegal. This is the first time I'm doing anything like this. I'm wondering how one is supposed to look into other opportunities if everywhere they apply will just withdraw the application. Do they expect people to quit in hopes that they'll get the employment? Or should I not have said anything? Unsure of what to do in this situation. I just don't want to be put into a job that I don't enjoy because money is being thrown at me, so I started to seek other opportunities.
Although the prices are a bit over the top, I can respect GoGo's customer support. A while back I reported to them how I was able to gain access to Facebook and Youtube almost effortlessly and they gave me two free coupons for unlimited in-flight WiFi as a token of appreciation. I would have informed them directly of this and awaited a response. They appeared to be pretty good at responding to my inquiries.
By him demonstrating something which Facebook clearly stated "...is not a bug" at the time, Facebook can't claim he violated the ToS. If it was not a bug, he was taking advantage of a feature which Facebook gave him the liberation to by stating so. The moment Facebook claims it is a bug, that contradicts what Facebook told him in the email, and thus it is Facebook's fault, not his. Facebook REALLY should not have said "this is not a bug." Facebook then had few options: to leave this as a feature (which is ludicrous), or treat it as a bug and redact what was stated in the email, which means Facebook should pay the damn man. You can't lie in an email and then pull a 180 when it's convenient for you.
How could you get that same education while being paid market value? Don't these companies require a post-grad degree in order to be considered for research positions?
Sorry. Forgot to mention, I have an offer from one of them. Would it be a bad idea to try to negotiate the "non-negotiable" starting salary since the stocks and signing bonus wouldn't be much use to me? (I need to be there for probably 4 or 5 years for all the bonus and stock stuff to be dispersed. I'd say about 25% of it would be dispersed before I went off to grad school without needing to be repaid.)
Of course they aren't inherently bad. Powerpoint is a tool. There are good ways and bad ways to use it. It's easier to use Powerpoint ineffectively than with other mediums.
Can't the serial number on a dollar bill be traced back to the last bank it was located? Not very accurate, but it's a lead if someone, for example, in the government wanted to find you.
"I'm not sure if there's any lesson here other than a warning against arrogance, but I have two stories to share."
Of course there is. You mentioned it yourself!:
"The future is extremely hard to see through the lens of the present, and it's very easy to unconsciously dismiss the first versions of it as frivolous or useless. Or as stupid ideas."
AWS is working at unprecedented scale and is definitely pushing the envelope. This sort of stuff is inevitable and I don't think it's inherently a bad thing.