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My favorite rejection letter - if you can call it that. I had two interviews with a smaller agency that I knew of and really wanted to work there because of th
by at-fates-hands 3y ago
My favorite rejection letter - if you can call it that.
I had two interviews with a smaller agency that I knew of and really wanted to work there because of their reputation and the work they were doing.
The last interview was with one of the founders of the company. She was really cool and we had a great rapport. The interview was about 90 mins and we covered a lot of ground. She said she would be reviewing my resume with the other devs I interviewed with and asked when I would be available to start.
I figured, cool, I got this in the bag.
A week goes by. . . .then another four days and now its been around two weeks since I heard from them. I practically checked out at my last job thinking I would be leaving and now I was getting nervous.
By sheer coincidence I run into one of the devs from the company at a conference that weekend. He was stoked to see me again since we had some common hobbies outside of development. I immediately asked WTF was going on, I hadn't heard anything from his company.
He looks at me and says, "Nobody called you to tell you what happened?" I said, "Yeah, no man, nobody called me, WTF happened?!" He does that nervous look around and then looks back and says in a hushed tone, "Two days after your interview, the founder you interviewed with? She sent an email to the other founders just saying, "I have to flee the country, and I've taken all the cash from the petty cash fund. I'll send back my phone and laptop when I'm in a safe country."
So yeah, I didn't get the job because one of the founders fled the country, took the companies petty cash fund along with their phone and laptop.
- neilv 3y agoAfter interviewing with a few teams and execs I'd be interfacing with in a Principal role, there was a pause, so I pinged them, and I got a rejection email. Then the HR contact reached out, to say they thought I'd be a great fit for the company, and would I be interested in any roles there in the future. Then I learned that they'd had a surprise big org chart upset (maybe AI poaching). I suppose it's reasonable that surprise changes high up the org chart can prompt a company to pause other changes, while they assess the new situation.