How I got to be a Noogler!

About a month ago I was contacted by a recruiter from Google. This guy saw my profile on LinkedIn and contacted me on Facebook. As strange as this might seem to you, it did seem to me and I responded the recruiter message by telling him how odd this type of contact was.
After a couple of messages (by Gmail, this time) the recruiter called me one afternoon. We spoke for about half an hour and at the end I was told that the the recruitment process could go on and he would have delivered his opinion of me and that conversation to the recruiting managers. At that time I was far from sure that it was going to be successful: I had already gotten much further than many people I know in real life, I had already gotten somewhere many people don't even dream of.

After about a week, I received information, telling me that we could go further still. I received another call and an invitation to go to Dublin, where the EU Google Head Quarters are, to an interview. Again: I was in disbelief. The trip to Dublin was arranged in a couple of days, and I departed by bus in a very cold morning on a Friday. I don't even remember how I got to the offices, but I was not nervous at all.

As soon as I was in the offices, I only thought about taking a picture, but I am very shy and felt ashamed... so I didn't do it.

I did not feel nervous, but someway I totally missed the enormous and awesome replica of Optimus Prime that decorates (guards) the elevators! The interview lasted a little more than 3 hours and I was met by 5 people that day.

I came back to Cork, where I will be living until next week and received the confirmation call a couple of weeks later, when they told me all the details about the job.
I decided to write this today because it's my last day at Siemens, a company that also has been very good to me.
So, this journey will continue between Dublin, where I will be living and working from now, and Cork, where my partner of life will have to stay. Wish me luck!