Once interviewed for a US government lab. Job sounded cool, it involved HPC and large weather simulations. Interviews went great and they decided to extend an o

Once interviewed for a US government lab. Job sounded cool, it involved HPC and large weather simulations. Interviews went great and they decided to extend an offer. Then almost 2 months of silence. I had moved on but they miraculously got back to me after all that time. They sent me an “offer” by… text message, I kid you not. The “offer” included the salary number and that was it. I was expecting the text message to just be a very unorthodox way to give me a preview, but no, that was it. I had to ask for a formal offer letter, almost felt like a scam. Needless to say, I passed.