India, Nov. 5 -- A Bay Area professional has opened up about how he spent three months living in his car after landing a job at Google. Kento Morita said that he could not afford the rent in San Francisco Bay Area - but rather than give up the opportunity of working for Google, he decided to live out of his car.

In a piece for Business Insider, Morita confessed to lying about his living situation during his interview at Google. "I have family in the Bay Area, so I can work locally," he told the hiring manager.

At the time of the interview in 2019, Morita was living in Santa Barbara, which is about 500 km away from Google's main headquarters in Mountain View, San Francisco.

"It was 2019, the AI field was growing, and this contract role ...