One of the commenters mentioned that it's harder to explain a short term at Google to prospective employers, but realistically anyone is going to understand tha

One of the commenters mentioned that it's harder to explain a short term at Google to prospective employers, but realistically anyone is going to understand that sometimes a particular job or team just doesn't work out regardless of the company's reputation. Any employer who doesn't understand that closed allocation will not infrequently result in this is probably to be avoided. Worst story I remember as related on HN, but my search fu is not able to find it, was a hardware engineer who was also good at programming and Python. He was put on a team writing Python hardware testing code, and because he found out, as is related by many others (and at many other companies) that the policy of immediate transfers is often fictional, he had to quit to avoid ending his career.