> Which researchers are you going to hire? Lemon market, whoever wants to be hired is more likely a lemon.
Not really. Most people in that space who have a “day job” are almost always open to being hired for better TC/benefits/more interesting problems.
Points 3 & 4 are largely correct.
It’s very rock and roll, but a very unstable income and most of the brokerages are comically untrustworthy. Also you may develop a conscience and find it hard to sleep at night.
Point 4… usually the people who can find such bugs reliably don’t work well in large corps past the short term. The unexplained gaps in a CV also aren’t conducive to getting past HR easily.
1. They do to some extent.
2. Which researchers are you going to hire? Lemon market, whoever wants to be hired is more likely a lemon.
3. Freelancing grayhat stuff is very rock n roll.
4. I bet some they try to hire and then the square and inflexible large corpo hiring process is just absolutely unfit for hiring such a person.