Sometimes Google ends a project, product or service and ceases to fund it. Engineers are often given plenty of time to find new roles working on other things. S

Sometimes Google ends a project, product or service and ceases to fund it. Engineers are often given plenty of time to find new roles working on other things. Sometimes employees stubbornly don’t get the hint, and then Google needs to tell them “hey you really do need to find another team”. The act of notifying the employee that they need to find a new job or else be laid off is the formal way Google does this. Considering how many teams are hiring at Google, multiple hundreds of jobs in Seattle alone — I would be surprised if this person couldn’t find a job if they tried not particularly hard. Disclosure: I worked for Google for 7 years, was an Eng Director, and (indirectly) managed hundreds of employees.