Sunnyvale Suicide - Google Employee Jumps Off MP6 Building?

A Google employee at its offices in Sunnyvale reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the MP6 building.

Reports of the Sunnyvale suicide involving a google employee started making rounds on some forums frequented by people who work in tech.

Soon, the rumors were hitting other social media platforms.

Consequently, the race is on to get more information about this and we provide it below.

Google employee suicide in Sunnyvale – what happened?

The news started from the forum known as Blind which is a tech forum for people who work in the space.

A user who is a software engineer describing themselves as an ex-Google employee revealed news of the alleged suicide.

“Google jumped off mp6 building – suicide Sunnyvale. Please folks , avoid the mp6 teams I was part of them and they were extremely stressful and mind boggling politics.

“Cloud security culture at google is awful after the latest hires,” he said.

Apparently, the Google MP6 teams work on cloud security.

A few days later, another similar post also emerged on the Blind forums.

“Googler at Sunnyvale office jumped off the roof and killed themselves today,” user Tech Industry wrote.

“Not officially confirmed yet, but lots of cops at the office and a widespread rumor at this point.

“Guess this is the result of 120hr workweeks, Wall St MBAs running the show, and ex-Amazon execs forcing their shitty culture on us. RIP,”

Details on the identity of the Google employee who allegedly committed suicide in Sunnyvale is pretty scarce.

No official reports from Google or law enforcement have touched on the topic.

We remain on the prowl to find any additional info we can find and would update this post when we do.

Not just Sunnyvale – Other Google suicides

There have been other suicides at Google much like other companies.

In 2023, Desirae Andersen plunged to her death from a hotel near Times Square following an argument with her boyfriend on May 2.

Its followed a vicious argument with her 24 year boyfriend Tyler Griffen. Andersen and her daughter were staying in a room in the Oyo Hotel when an argument broke out and spilled into the hallway.

Griffen, who was arrested and charged with assault and reckless endangerment, admitted at his arraignment that he remembered punching his girlfriend but was not arrested for her death.

Prosecutors said during the fight he also pushed the eight-month old daughter down a flight of stairs, but she was saved by other hotel guests and not injured.

By the time police had responded to 911 calls about the vicious argument, Andersen had climbed out of the tenth floor window of the hotel and leaped to her death.

Her body was found on scaffolding on the second floor and she was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.

A Go FundMe page was started by her Anderson’s mother Cheryl Valenzuela to pay for a funeral and to bring the eight month old baby home.

“It is with a heavy heart that I come to you all today to ask for your help to provide a funeral and memorial service that my beautiful daughter deserves,” she wrote.

“She was only 20 years old and died after a physical altercation with her boyfriend in New York. I need to bring her body home to have a proper burial for her. She leaves behind an 8 month old baby girl who also needs to be brought home to Colorado from New York and I need to get to her asap. I am just at a loss and anything that anyone can contribute will be greatly appreciated.”

Two days after Andersen’s death, a 31 year-old software engineer at Google fell to his death from the 14th floor of the tech giant’s Manhattan HQ in Chelsea at 111 Eighth Ave. in another apparent suicide.

He was later identified by police as Kevin Rawlings.

Rawlings’ death followed that of another Google employee in New York, a 33-year-old advertising partnerships lead named Jacob Pratt, who also died by apparent suicide in February at a hotel near Google’s office in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.

The story of a suicide at Sunnyvale Google therefore is the latest in a series of tragic events surrounding those working in such a demanding sector.

Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.

Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield and NASA Ames Research Center to the northwest, Mountain View to the northwest, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east.

Sunnyvale’s population was 155,805 at the 2020 census, making it the second most populous city in the county (after San Jose) and the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As one of the major cities that make up California’s high-tech area known as Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry, former location of Atari headquarters, and the location of a fictional computer game company in the 1983 film WarGames.

Many technology companies are headquartered in Sunnyvale and many more operate there, including several aerospace/defense companies.

The 2020 United States Census reported that Sunnyvale had a population of 155,805.

The population density was 6,596 inhabitants per square mile (2,547/km2).

The racial makeup of Sunnyvale was 46,551 (29.9%) White, 2,228 (1.4%) African American, 1,081 (0.7%) Native American, 77,842 (49.9%) Asian, 491 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 14,181 (9.1%) from other races, and 13,431 (8.6%) from two or more races.

Hispanic or Latino of any race were 25,372 persons (16.3%). Non-Hispanic Whites were 27.8% of the population in 2020,[41] compared to 74.7% in 1980.

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