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I took a 7-month maternity leave from my Google engineering job. Coming back to work was one of the hardest things I've ever done.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Shruti Dhumak, a cloud customer engineer in Google's Boston office who gave birth in February 2023. It has been edited for length and clarity.
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I took 8 months of maternity leave from my Google engineering job. Coming back to work was one of the hardest things I've done.

Shruti Dhumak navigated maternity leave amid Google's AI-industry shift and layoffs. She split up her leave to maintain visibility and manage family support from India. Dhumak said she focused on self ...