thrwawayxoogler

Xoogler in a throwaway account.

If you look at the linked "my move away from California" post, you'll see that he moved to the Portland, Oregon area during the pandemic.

* EDIT *

He says that he was working out of the Portland office, but the majority of open engineering roles there (not many in total) are very specialized.

My guess is that post-pandemic, now that Google offices will be re-opening, they don't want people spread all over the place, and he wasn't willing to move back to California. While his managers were most likely supportive of him working fully remote, Google isn't very flexible when it comes to fully remote work.