Do they pay comparable money?
However, something to note is that while money is important, it's not the most important thing in life. Or it shouldn't be, anyway.
Doesn't mean that pay grade is fully correlated with skill, of course. There are other industries that pay more and don't require anything like that.
But the thing is... you can
Most of us are not designing algorithms, most of the time, or any of the time
Many engineers are just filling seats in places that are just in the business of sucking up talent from the market instead of having a bunch of entreprenuers running around
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