I知 Suing Civis Analytics [View all]
My PhD is in machine learning. Politics is my hobby. Civis Analytics is a politically-connected machine learning tech-startup. I was very excited to work there.
After an awkward conversation with a friend and colleague, I came to find out I was being paid 20% less than the PhD physicist that I had to train in machine learning. Civis is a machine learning startup. Civis is not SpaceX. When we discussed our salaries, he apologized to me and said I should be senior to him. Were his 9 years of doing academic research in a tangentially-related field 25% more valuable than my 8 years of research in the relevant field?
There was another physicist with some machine learning knowledge and some industry experience. I showed him more advanced material and coached him through complicated algorithms. He advocated for me to an almost embarrassing degree… circling by my desk when the executives were around, heaping praise in a loud voice. He also apologized to me when I told him my salary.
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You might think this has nothing to do race or ethnicity. After all, I’m only half-Mexican and I frequently pass for white. This is why I’m occasionally put in awkward positions:
Acquaintance: The damn spics are ruining this country!
Me: What!? I’m Mexican you f$#!# @$$#%^&!
Acquaintance: Oh, uh… Sorry, I wasn’t talking about you.
Me: Who were you talking about? My dad? My grandfather, the WWII vet?
This even happens with people who know I’m Mexican. I am just so Assimilation: Mission Accomplished that they forget.
http://troyhernandez.com/2016/01/27/im-suing-civis-analytics/
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