I actually think a lot of Universities in America are hiring bottom-of-the-barrel programers for their tenured positions as a result of the income difference fr

I actually think a lot of Universities in America are hiring bottom-of-the-barrel programers for their tenured positions as a result of the income difference from University to Industry. I went to a top-10 CS school as well, and saw it happen several times. Professor that is actually really talented, educated and capable of articulating advanced CS concepts ends up leaving to be a sr. engineer at G, FB, MS, etc. due to differences in pay. We lost our best math prof, and our best CS prof in my 4 years because of this. They both got replaced with imports from other countries that couldn't teach as well due to language barrier but probably where happily willing to accept the visa sponsorship and shot at USA life (which I understand).