No, it's not to discuss how great you are and when the IPO is coming. Sudden, inexplicable stopping or re-direction of a major project. These are not related projects, and if they are, I'd really like to see the business plan that combines them all without exploding into multimedia nothingness. This was what happened right before SGI decided to eliminate software production. Weird, frenetic hiring in the marketing department.
Executives always hire a zillion marketers right before they eat themselves alive.
Blame Steve Jobs, who always tries to solve engineering problems with good advertising. Key managers leave or key managers stay. And anyone who is enough of a corporate brownnoser to stick around for that ain't going to tell you that your job is about to go boom. Of course, the mysteriously disappearing manager probably won't tell you either. There is no logical source of revenue.