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1. The field can be desperate for software engineers. OR 2. You need to take a pay cut if you want to join this field. If it's both, someone at the top is very
by josephschmoe 13y ago
1. The field can be desperate for software engineers.
OR
2. You need to take a pay cut if you want to join this field.
If it's both, someone at the top is very out of touch.
- micro_cam 13y agoIt is both. And the people at the top are various grant funding agencies that often move at the pace of government and are used to the post doc pay scale. Things are changing but the salaries places like google and amazon pay are just hard to match on a government grant.
- noname123 13y agoYou have to realize that most post-doc's, so people who are in their 30's-40's and have the years of tenure and education as a doctor with residency make like $45-50K; that is, if they're lucky to get it. So for a code monkey to come in and tap away on his stupid keyboard to make like $75K is a travesty as far as the research academia is concerned. But in research, you're better than the sell-out's trying to make people click on ads and shit though. So part of your paycheck every week is padded with tokens of self-righteousness and moral superiority that you can redeem in times of needed philosophical consolations.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoOr the academics could just buck up and unionize like all other exploited workers, including, frankly, academics in many countries.
- skosuri 13y agoPost docs in UC schools are unionized (as well as elsewhere).
- Fomite 13y agoAcademia, because it is fueled by grants, cannot necessarily adjust pay to compete with the demand from other sectors, no matter how much they might like to. Beyond that, good programmers are stupidly helpful, but not mission-critical.
- ap22213 13y agoI would work on research projects for free, if the projects were interesting and/or I got some reputation out of it.