We're heading west! In just 3 or 4 weeks, our little family is heading to California. I thought that we should write out how this happened so soon after moving into our new house here in Stansbury.
In January, Steve was contacted by a recruiter from Google through LynkedIn, a job networking site. He wanted Steve to interview for a test engineer position. First, he had a phone interview just before Matthew's blessing. It went really well, so they asked him to come to California for a day of interviews.
Steve flew out the 14th of February (which postponed our Valentine's plans a little) for a day of interviews on the 15th. He stayed with our friends, Charles and Desiree, for his trip. Charles has worked for Google for 2 years already. He and his wife had a lot of good advice and answered a lot of our questions.
Steve had 7 different interviews that day. Each had a different interviewer and Steve said that they all seemed to come from a different part of the world: India, the UK, South America. He felt that all the interviews went well and we started to think seriously about the possibility of working for Google.
Two weeks ago, we got a call from Google with an offer of employment. The first offer was not one that we were willing to take, so Steve went back. They came back with another that was better, but not quite what we wanted. The third offer came just this week and was one that we could take.
Steve put in his two weeks notice on Thursday. Our start date at Google will be April 22. That will give us about two weeks after Steve finishes to move and get settled. We will probably be staying with Steve's parents for a couple of months while we sell the house in Stansbury and look for a house in California. Wish us luck!
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