You sound like the kind of French researchers that keep publishing ****t and think it's great because they succeeded gaming a CNRS/FNEGE journal.
These managers are incompetent, not because they don't have CNRS/FNEGE stars or any other ranking measure, but because they've never done good research, ranked or not. There are many other research deans in France that simply put their signature on CNRS/FNEGE ****t. It doesn't make them any better, maybe the opposite.
When an old man who has never written and published a single paper in a highly ranked journal but calls himself a research director, that school is already dead. What is wrong with the French? Is France a developing country? That salary is unbelievably low. French brothers, come to Hong Kong, you can easily get 120K Euros per year plus additional research funding and housing support.