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A friend had a UC professor ask if she'd be interested in a remote postdoc because it would have been impossible for them to hire someone in California given th
by wlesieutre 4y ago
A friend had a UC professor ask if she'd be interested in a remote postdoc because it would have been impossible for them to hire someone in California given the postdoc pay rates.
I don't know if that's an unheard of arrangement or not, but it sounded totally weird to me.
- jleyank 4y agoMakes perfect sense for a computational field such as molecular modeling or engineering.
- j-wags 4y agoYour comment could be read in two ways. Could you clarify? 1) The UC professor offered a remote postdoc because they did not have enough funding to pay the minimum UC postdoc salary, but could pay less to out of state employees 2) The UC professor offered a remote postdoc because the allowed UC postdoc salary was not sufficient to attract candidates given the area's cost of living
- wlesieutre 4y ago2 was my impression for why they were looking for remote candidates, pretty hard sell to move to any of UC's areas on a $55k salary. Someone else probably accepted, in her case she'd already taken a better opportunity elsewhere. I just thought it was strange for a grad student position to be so disconnected from the university campus. But with the insane cost of living I guess it's not surprising.