""I have family in the Bay Area, so I can work locally," I told the hiring manager during an interview at Google. I didn't, but I lied because I was living in Santa Barbara at the time, roughly 300 miles away from Google's main headquarters in Mountain View, California. I knew going into the interview that I'd need to work on-site, but I really wanted the position."
"First of all, I found out I wouldn't be able to break my lease in Santa Barbara, which still had about four months left. Plus, rent in the Bay Area felt sky-high. At the time, the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco was $3,600 a month. Santa Barbara wasn't cheap either, and I wasn't making enough money to pay for two rents at the same time."
A contractor lied about having family in the Bay Area to claim they could work locally while actually living 300 miles away in Santa Barbara. In 2019, amid a growing AI job market, the contractor accepted a contract role at Google that required on-site presence. Unable to break a four-month lease and deterred by a San Francisco median one-bedroom rent of $3,600, the contractor could not afford two rents. With Google offering free food, a gym, showers, and laundry on campus, the contractor decided to live in a car. The contractor sold a motorcycle, bought a 2005 Volvo, and installed insulated, blackout cardboard window inserts to sleep in until the lease ended.
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