Can anyone perhaps recommend any strategies/approaches for transitioning into biotech, without having had any experience specifically in biotech?<p>I’ve personally been working at non-FAANG companies across several different industries for 15 years, recently in team lead roles, mostly in the open source arena. Most recently in a project lead role, which I don’t enjoy too much.
Explore few prominent (organic) chemistry softwares in intensive depth eg:<p>Chemdraw for creating organic chemical structures, schemes, diagrams/figures, which can be exported to other programs<p>SciFinder and Reaxys for searching the chemical literature and doing background research<p>Gaussview and Gaussian09 to submit and run DFT or ab initio calculations on molecules<p>MestReNova / MestRec
I'm in biotech but I'm not a programmer. Have you looked at job listings to see where your experience parallels and where it doesn't?<p>From what I've seen many of the programmers with biotech experience don't really have a good understanding of what we do in the lab. Communication is really important.