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by njarboe
2137 days ago
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People that are just decent programmers can make at least twice (probable 3 or 4 times) as much money working for industry than for science in an academic environment. Most programmers that would work for less money because they are interested in science will be more interested in computer programming problems than basic programming to support a scientist. NSF won't give you $250k to hire a really good programmer to support your gene analysis project. More like 100k if you are lucky. So what you end up with are that great scientists that are decent programmers are the ones who can do the cutting edge science at the moment. |
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