“Promised HC not landing - e.g. I was promised further expansion twice, which later was scratched and then promised again in a bit different form…”
Nine years, three products and an L6 title at Google. The exit list is headcount promised twice and scratched, senior managers with no oversight, and a Dublin office swimming upstream against a US-centric company. L7 is political and the management track had no headcount. Google had a pool in the office and still lost an L6 engineer.