A Female Engineer’s Fight for Equal Pay at Google
Software engineer Kelly Ellis is locked in a high-profile battle against the search giant.
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In 2010, Kelly Ellis got the dream Silicon Valley job: a software engineering position at Google. So when she first noticed things at work that suggested she was earning less than her male colleagues, she wasn’t sure how to reconcile it with her idea of the company. “I think I just didn’t want to believe that Google could be evil,” she says in the latest episode of the Decrypted podcast.