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Way more common than you think it is. It's less that their biomedical experience is valued particularly highly as it is that they're on the engineering pay scal
by frisco 11y ago
Way more common than you think it is. It's less that their biomedical experience is valued particularly highly as it is that they're on the engineering pay scale now, and Google is paying very high prices for good engineers at the moment. Uber is too. New undergrads are ~$130k + bonus, PhDs are routinely $170k + options. A few years of experience brings this up pretty fast. Facebook is also paying new undergrads $120k - $140k. It's just that PhDs are basically considered engineers now.
Edit: Worth clarifying is that the cases I know of first-hand for this got their PhDs in "bioengineering" or something similar, not a traditional biology or chemistry.
- cryoshon 11y agoAh, your clarification brings this into perspective. The researcher I knew was definitely not an engineer, so I assume he was on a lower payscale. Biomedical engineers typically get paid a bit better than the researchers everywhere.
- mmmBacon 11y agoI used to work in this field at a big tech player that competes with Google for talent in this area. I can definitely vouch for the fact that salaries are NOT $60k and that they are more in line with what frisco is talking about.