[aprof-throwaway]

Just curious, anyone know what kind of package I could get at Google or equiv? Or am I too old?

I'm a 36 year old associate professor in Statistics at a top 20 international university and I also have extensive coding experience (10+ years professional experience).

I currently make around $100K salary + $80-100K consulting on side. I also bring in more than $100K a year in grant money that I use to pay RAs, etc.

Are there people with similar backgrounds that have made the leap? I'm keen to hear from them.

[NotSammyHagar]

I used to work at google. The offer depends on the office, and what role you have. Big expensive cities pay more (sf area, seattle, nyc are the highest pay; zurich pays even more). Google's interview bar is really high, a lot of prof software engineers can't make it. Also plenty of good people don't pass the interview bar.

They have real statisticians at google, doing stats stuff, like analyzing different options and combinations and strategies for charging.

I have a phd in cs, and 20 years as a dev, including some leadership times. I made about 175-185 at google in one of those big cities, plus half that in stock each year. you get a fixed bonus of 15% of salary times a company bonus rate.

Because you have experience but you might be a specialty area, it's harder to say. I'd guess 150k plus 150k payable over 4 years in stock, maybe a hire on bonus of 25k. and the typical 15% bonus.

[vram22]

>Are there people with similar backgrounds that have made the leap? I'm keen to hear from them.

One that I know of is Matt Welsh:

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.in/

[singingfish]

I never got successful as an academic (too lazy/multidisciplinary depending on how you look at it), but my experience is despite my fairly specialised skill set in software dev (a small amount of which is statistics related) that since I made the (semi-accidental) leap into software development things have been much better paid/more stable.

[eitally]

I met a physics associate prof from Stanford who took a job as a data scientist at Google a few months ago. I unfortunately don't know his previous or current comp, but I do know he was super-thrilled with the improvement.

[grogenaut]

https://jobs.lever.co/twitch/b32b9631-e02b-4e72-b492-f4fc26e...