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Should I let my company interview me for a big marketing campaign they’re working on before I quit?

I'm the lead engineer for a major tech product at the company I currently work for. I'm also a young WOC and active in the local tech community. And so when marketing started looking for employees to write stories about for a big special marketing campaign, they reached out to me. Normally I'd accept something like this, but I'm actually planning on leaving the company in a few months after I finish a project I'm working on because my career is really starting to stall at this place. I've become a big fish in a small pond that is rapidly becoming a puddle. Haven't told anyone my plans to leave yet because it's too soon. And it's not like I have another job lined up as an excuse either, I just want to take a short break before I go somewhere better. So… should I do it or not? I'm…


I'm the lead engineer for a major tech product at the company I currently work for. I'm also a young WOC and active in the local tech community. And so when marketing started looking for employees to write stories about for a big special marketing campaign, they reached out to me.

Normally I'd accept something like this, but I'm actually planning on leaving the company in a few months after I finish a project I'm working on because my career is really starting to stall at this place. I've become a big fish in a small pond that is rapidly becoming a puddle. Haven't told anyone my plans to leave yet because it's too soon. And it's not like I have another job lined up as an excuse either, I just want to take a short break before I go somewhere better.

So… should I do it or not?

I'm leaning toward no because this particular story would likely become part of the history of the company (it's a big thing, without giving it away). But I'm not sure what to say when turning them down. Because they have written several smaller articles about me throughout my time there.

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