By TOI Education
Publication Date: 2026-01-17 10:39:00
On January 11, 2026, Arpit Bhayani did something he never planned to do. He resigned from Google. There was no restlessness behind the decision. No quiet quitting, no better offer waiting in the wings. Bhayani, a Bengaluru-based engineer deeply invested in in-memory databases, left because two parts of his life could no longer coexist.“Yesterday was my last day at Google. It is not bittersweet but a purely bitter moment,” he wrote on X. “I had no plans of leaving, but I had no choice left.”The conflict, he explained, was over his work outside Google, his educational YouTube channel, and online courses. What began as knowledge-sharing escalated into a legal matter. Once the company’s legal team got involved, the door closed quickly.“I am bummed,” Bhayani admitted. Bummed about leaving a domain he loved. Bummed about walking away from engineers he respected. Bummed because, in his words, “there was so much good stuff left to build.”His post spread fast. The surprise…
