I find the very idea of industry postdocs funny (funny-sad, though). Sure, it makes sense for the academy, with all of its scarcities, to make use of precarious, casualized post-graduate labor, but to extend this to the tech sector is vaguely monstrous. It’s extra funny (but funny-sad too) when you hear of a senior professor doing an industry postdoc at a company with a name like baz.ly during their sabbatical.
I think the pay is industry-grade, though, no?
I think so but I don’t know. It’s the casualization that I find bad, not the pay. (IMO academic postdocs are usually reasonably compensated in North America. Out of grad school, was offered a postdoc at exactly 2x the salary for a full-time visiting professorship at an elite US university in a notoriously expensive metro area. I took the postdoc.)