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It happened to me, I got contacted for an offer (I was working in a niche industry area).

They had above 50 candidates with the required qualifications. After two online interview they invited me for a onsite interview. It's in another country so they are paying for the flights tickets and hotel.

I'm onsite for the day, I have interviews, visit of the place, the museum, I'm invited for lunch there, more interviews in the afternoon.

In the 3 candidates that were there, one was a guy who already candidated for the exact same opening 5 years ago, did not got selected for this job at the time but they did not want him to go so they hired him on another position until the main position opens again.

So without any surprises, he got selected.

This shit literally just happened to me. Went thru 4 rounds of interviews over the course of a month, with the last one being in person and over 3.5 hours long, meeting with half the damned office. The way they were talking to me they acted like I had the job, then yesterday I got a rejection email from them. I mean WTF!?!?

trust me, it's even worse from the other side. my last job was in industrial production, and I only took it because I knew there would be an opening in their quality department in about a year, and I could get a leg up by learning about all the processes and such. so over the next year I work up to the second-highest position in the production department. the quality position finally opens up, I apply for it, all of the non-management people in both production and quality departments agree I'd be the best bet out of all the internal applicants. after two interviews they tell me they're going to look for an external candidate; they said I had everything they were looking for, but a lack of "project ownership experience." whose fault is that? this was the second job I'd ever had, and the first laid me off after only a few months during covid; if you want me to have experience you have to give me the opportunity. anyway they hired some other guy, and I kept working in production. a year later the other guy was still coming to me at least weekly to ask really basic questions about production procedures. I quit not long after that

That has happened to me before. Also: we did a reorg and the team you were interviewing with no longer exists. Also: the manager who made you an offer was fired, so we are rescinding your offer.

Unironically continuously breaking new ground on how close I can get to landing a job, without landing a job. It's frankly astounding.

Just last week, had a great series of interviews, bossman says he'll send me a contract. Monday morning, I text him to ask if there's a problem with email or some other hold-up, am told a system is hung but I'll get it. Tuesday morning get a text from a completely different bossman informing me that bossman 1 has been fired, and he'll pick up from there. Had another interview, with him now. Last word, I'll get the contract this coming week. Uh huh.

I have, of course, other things in the pipeline but they're not as far progressed. Plus, that is not even an outlier, that's how every fucking thing in my life goes.

I once had a job wait until the night before I was supposed to start to tell me that they had decided to go with an internal candidate.

I once interviewed a guy after HR had already talked to him. Told him straight up the permanent job would preferably go to an internal candidate, but we still needed someone like him temporarily, even though HR had told him it was for a permanent job. He still took it and the internal candidate was promoted 9 months later. I'm still friends with the guy that took the temp job.

Just do an assblast. Minivan consequences!

Just let them know you're planning to move abroad for better job opportunities and see how quickly they offer you a C-suite position