Side hustle ends a Google career: Why this Bengaluru engineer was forced to quit
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…