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In 2013, he was personally hired as the [[Uber]] [[Chief Technology Officer]] (CTO) by the CEO, [[Travis Kalanick]], who was impressed by his technical skills after interviewing him for 30 hours over two weeks.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.geekwire.com/2016/qa-uber-cto/|title=Uber CTO reveals how Travis Kalanick hired him and offers advice for entrepreneurs|date=April 1, 2016|work=[[GeekWire]]}}</ref> In 2016, Pham's internal email to employees commenting, "I will not even utter the name of this deplorable person because I do not accept him as my leader" on the election of U.S. President Trump, who is [[Immigration policy of Donald Trump|anti immigration]], was widely circulated and published by the media.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-cto-internal-email-donald-trump-deplorable-2017-1|title='I do not accept him as my leader' — Uber CTO's explosive anti-Trump email reveals growing internal tensions|date=January 24, 2017|work=[[Business Insider]]|first=Biz|last=Carson}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/uber-cto-blasts-trump-in-staff-email.html|title=Uber CTO calls Trump a 'deplorable person' in staff email, says report|date=January 25, 2017|publisher=[[CNBC]]|first=Harriet|last=Taylor}}</ref>
In 2017, it was reported that Pham had knowledge of [[Uber#Sexual harassment at workplace allegations|Susan Fowler's sexual harassment allegation at Uber]] and her manager's threatened retaliation, and did nothing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/uber-ceo-orders-urgent-investigation-into-sexual-harassment-allegations|title=Uber C.E.O. Orders "Urgent Investigation" into Sexual Harassment Allegations|date=February 20, 2017|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|first=Maya|last=Kosoff}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace-culture.html|title=Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture|date=February 22, 2017|work=The New York Times|first=Mike|last=Isaac}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.recode.net/2017/2/20/14666572/uber-sexism-susan-fowler-delete-uber|title=A former Uber employee’s disturbing claims of workplace sexism reignite calls to #deleteUber|date=February 20, 2017|work=[[Recode]]|first=Johana|last=Bhuiyan}}</ref> (These allegation were later shown to be false by an investigative reporting by TheInformation,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theinformation.com/how-ubers-top-engineer-saved-his-job|title=How Uber’s Top Engineer Saved His Job|date=June 23, 2017|work=TheInformation|first=Amir|last=Efrati}}</ref> and by a Buzzfeed publication of an email from Pham to this engineering team to clarify the matter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/priya/uber-exec-accused-of-ignoring-complaints-i-take-all|title=Top Uber Engineer, Under Pressure, Tells Staff "I Take All Concerns Raised To Me Extremely Seriously"|date=June 26, 2017|publisher=[[BuzzFeed]]|first=Priya|last=Anand}}</ref>) In the same week, Pham stopped working peppa pig alongside<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.recode.net/2017/1/20/14339418/uber-engineering-gains-two-google-veterans-search|title=Uber has hired two significant Google veterans|date=January 20, 2017|work=[[Recode]]|first=Tess|last=Townsend}}</ref> Uber's SVP of Engineering [[Amit Singhal]], who was asked by the CEO, Kalanick, to resign after a month for failing to disclose a sexual harassment claim during Singhal's 15 years as VP of [[Google Search]], after ''[[Recode]]'' reported about it in media.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2017/02/27/uber-amit-singhal-resigns/|title=Uber Exec Resigns After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface From His Time at Google|date=February 27, 2017|work=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]|first=Polina|last=Marinova}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/technology/uber-sexual-harassment-amit-singhal-resign.html|title=Amit Singhal, Uber Executive Linked to Old Harassment Claim, Resigns|date=February 27, 2017|work=The New York Times|first=Mike|last=Isaac}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.recode.net/2017/2/27/14745360/amit-singhal-google-uber|title=Uber’s SVP of engineering is out after he did not disclose he left Google in a dispute over a sexual harassment allegation|date=February 27, 2017|work=[[Recode]]|first=Kara|last=Swisher}}</ref>
==Personal life==
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