How I (almost) got an internship at Google
My story: After my technical phone interviews, I got "accepted" as an intern, meaning I was in the Intern Pool of Rot, where I waded and waited for a team to fish me out. I waded and waded for a couple of months, hoping for a kind suitor. The HR woman always told me that she was "optimistic" about my prospects, so I rejected offers from other companies.<p>Then a really cool opportunity came, and I accepted that offer because you can't just sit in a rotting pool for two months.<p>A friend of mine stayed in the rotting pool and was told at the beginning of summer that no one at Google wanted him.<p>This was 2009-2010. I hope Google changed their ways.