He skipped his Noam Shazeer interview at Google in 2016—because he couldn't find parking
ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-10-27
Following swyx's "bag fumble" thread, ZeeshanZiaML shares his own: in December 2016 he was scheduled to interview at Google with Noam Shazeer as his first interviewer. Unable to find visitor parking, he emailed HR to cancel that day's remaining interviews—turning down Noam Shazeer's team pre-Transformer. He posted the actual email exchange as receipts.