LeCun Declined Google Job Offer in 2002 Due to Low Pay and Relocation Concerns
- LeCun turned down offer for director of research role at Google in 2002
- Reasons included low compensation package and not wanting to move family to California
- Google only had 600 employees and no revenue at the time
- LeCun wanted to refocus on research areas like machine learning
- LeCun says if he had joined, he might have made Google's research culture more open and ambitious earlier