The Hook
It's mid November and I'm minding my own business, when out of the blue I get a message on LinkedIn. It's a technical recruiter from Google, we'll call her "K" (you know, like in The English Patient), and she says she was impressed by my HackerRank badge for Algorithms. She wants to have a chat and learn a little bit about my background, she says. Of course this blew my mind, in a sort of "glitter and confetti shooting out my ears" sort of way. I've had recruiters hit my up on LinkedIn before, but this was Google! I allowed myself to glow in it for a little while, but I tried to keep myself in check too. At this stage, it was just one phone call with a recruiter.
