Many are speculating and thereby attributing this decision to the company's search for 'cheaper' option elsewhere, outside the United States, where the company would not have to pay as much.

Poor Google. They would love to do the right thing but they just don't quite have enough money to pay their loyal employees what they're worth, so they have to fuck them over instead.

Guaranteed this was some MBA who realized they could save money by going offshore. Every MBA goes through this phase. I'll save the company millions! Quality drops to zero, bugs go out MBA is promoted out, and the actual pms are left to figure out how the hell to fix this

Google has laid off their Python Foundation team and asked them to train their replacements who will be in the Munich office.