Business InsiderJacob Zinkula
Thinking about a career pivot? A Google engineer shares what he learned from taking a leap of faith.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Prerit Pathak, a 28-year-old security engineer at Google in New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity.
I think some people mistakenly believe that being a 'tech employee' is synonymous with being a software engineer. But I've always had a fascination for cybersecurity.
I vividly remember jailbreaking my devices as a kid to enhance their capabilities.
Hacking for me meant making something do what it wasn't intended to do. It's the art of navigating edge cases — to question the builder's assumptions and make the supposedly impossible possible.
Despite that interest, I started my career as a software engineer at Dell Technologies in India.
Compared to software engineering or AI, I believe there's a…
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