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I haven’t heard of rescinded offers so much but I’ve seen this happen in a different form: employees being hired into departments which were promptly shut down.
by tyleo 5y ago
I haven’t heard of rescinded offers so much but I’ve seen this happen in a different form: employees being hired into departments which were promptly shut down.
I saw this happen as an intern at Microsoft when BlackBerry was shut down.
I also saw it happen to some friends in the games industry. In one case the department shut down on a friends first day of work and they were promptly out of the job after moving across the country.
It’s still a shitty thing to do though.
- tinyhouse 5y agoHappened to me as an intern as well. That was around 2009 if I'm not mistaken. The recession started and the company froze all hiring. A company like Microsoft is big enough and can move people around, no reason to rescind the offer.
- psyc 5y agoMy team got shut down on my first day at Microsoft. We got rolled into another decent project that needed similar skills, so I stayed.