This post was originally published on August 31, 2011, on my personal blog.

The building had somehow been lost in the skyline every time I had seen Bellevue. Half an hour before my interview, I walked into the lobby with my heart racing — it’s not every day that you land an chance to work at your dream company. A directory was posted by the elevator, but the company I was looking for wasn’t on it. As I searched the walls for some evidence I was in the right place, I heard two men behind me joking about a girl…