[jsolson]

No.

Unsubmitted changes at Google usually come in one of two flavors, short-lived (abandoned or submitted within a few days) or perpetual. The latter flavor is often for "I think we might want this". It's not uncommon for those to be completely rewritten if they're actually needed. There's usually a preference for submitting useful things (with tests!) and flag gating them to cut down on bitrot.

I have seen exceptions -- I reported a bug in a fiddly bit of epoll-related code and an engineer on my team had a multi-year-old fix -- he hadn't submitted it because he wasn't confident he'd found an actual bug. The final changelist number was more than double the original CL number (unsubmitted changes get re-numbered to fit in sequence when they're submitted -- the original number redirects to the final submitted version in our tooling).