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I'm a relatively fresh grad working in development for a university. It's slow. It's stable. It's not very sexy. I could probably double my salary elsewhere. But, my conscience is pretty clean for this very reason. I build tools to make university operations more efficient, not to squeeze every last drop of data from our users or manipulate them into buying a product.

There are definitely problems to be addressed in higher ed and how universities are run, but it's nowhere near Silicon Valley's lack of ethics.

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In NZ I find universities are an awful mixture of academic uselessness, and corporate greed (their incentives are mostly according to number of students moving through, not benefit to the students or society).

I have seen they can be fun places to work though, depending on the politics of the department.