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After creating a third-party Google Workspace CLI that went viral on Hacker News and GitHub, the engineer was terminated by Google amid branding and disruption concerns. Two days before his firing, Google announced its own official Workspace CLI.
- Poehnelt was fired after his side-project Google Workspace CLI went viral on Hacker News and GitHub, drawing internal attention from directors and legal over use of Google's logo/branding.
- Google Cloud Next announced its own official Workspace CLI just two days before his termination, essentially mirroring his open-source tool.
- He views the timing as ironic vindication that his project anticipated Google's own product direction.
- After nearly seven years at Google, he's going public with the story to process and move past the experience.