A Google manager blocked his engineer's internal transfer twice. The engineer just signed a $620K offer from Anthropic, a company Google has poured billions into. Big tech built transfer friction on purpose. Moves run through your current manager, through ratings, timing windows, and sign-offs, because without that friction every unglamorous but critical team would bleed out in a quarter. The whole system only works while your best alternative to this desk is another desk in the same…