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Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:01AM (#16483816)
The author did indicate a project involving machine learning likely being a better path to promotion.
Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself by gvb on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:33PM (#16484802)
Except, if I got the sequence right, it turned into "bait and switch:"

Priorities shifted. Management traded my project away to our sister team in India. In exchange, that team gave us one of their projects. It was an undocumented system, built on deprecated infrastructure, but it was nevertheless a critical component in production. I was assigned to untangle it from our sister team’s code and migrate it to a new framework, all while keeping it running in production and hitting its performance metrics.