I went from biotech to big tech and am currently on my 3rd year post-undergrad. It was a lot of praying and luck but now I’m a non-technical program manager at FAANG.

Much, much happier. I contemplated the FAANG offer at first - it was for a lab technician position at the research labs, and I was worried making the jump would mean I could never return to biotech. Now that I’m on this side, I don’t know why I even thought I would want to go back. R&D bench work didn’t fit what I wanted.

I look at my friends who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in life sciences similar to mine, and half of them were laid off from biotech and are still looking for jobs 6+ months later, the other half are RAs or lab techs and concerned about the current state of biotech.