Google Software Engineer, Podcaster, Quit to Pursue AI Startup0

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• June 22, 2026

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aashna Doshi, a 23-year-old former Google software engineer based in New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I took a big risk to get my Google job. Now I’m taking another one by leaving it. Around February 2024, months before graduating