Grad students are paid in prestige, research experience, and other forms of career capital, as well as mission, rather than just $s. Even so, arguably many of them are quite underpaid (when many of the EAs I know who have no intrinsic love of the academic life are considering grad school, they think of it as a sacrifice for future impact).
In comparison, software engineers for academia are only paid in $s, plus mission, plus (substantially less) prestige. So paying junior engineers the equivalent to a grad student is quite a raw deal in comparison.
Grad students are paid in prestige, research experience, and other forms of career capital, as well as mission, rather than just $s. Even so, arguably many of them are quite underpaid (when many of the EAs I know who have no intrinsic love of the academic life are considering grad school, they think of it as a sacrifice for future impact).
In comparison, software engineers for academia are only paid in $s, plus mission, plus (substantially less) prestige. So paying junior engineers the equivalent to a grad student is quite a raw deal in comparison.
Exactly. The incentives are not there to invest in becoming a decent developer.