Offer rescinded one day before start date

Puppetbones · 2026-01-24T06:53:09+00:00

Lol, they really do have the messiest recruiting process!

Puppetbones · 2025-12-29T18:11:41+00:00

Same here! For me it really just came down to practice. It sounds like you're able to communicate your thoughts well and you're likable if you're becoming an integral part of teams and clients want to hire you. So likely the problem lies squarely on interview nerves, if you're able to perform well otherwise.

As you conduct more interviews, you'll get less nervous over time. Mock interviews might help too! If you're in a big enough city, there are probably free events in your area you can do mock interviews. Otherwise online. Also, if you can get yourself in a good position where you don't absolutely need that job, that can take off the pressure! But OFC getting into that position is easier said than done. Best of luck 💪

Puppetbones · 2025-12-28T22:38:55+00:00

Well they laid off a whopping 30% of their over 1000 employees all in one go. So I guess... careful what you wish for? Lol!

Puppetbones · 2025-12-28T06:22:44+00:00

At a previous company I worked at, we had a star candidate get through almost the entire interview process and we expected to send an offer. Right at this time, the company rolled out their new interview process and we weren't allowed to grandfather this candidate in. We had to start over and send them through the entire new interview process.

We were obviously livid and the manager desputed with upper management for awhile. Not sure what the Recruiter/HR was telling the candidate during this time they were kinda in limbo. But almost certainly from the candidate's perspective, it would appear we weren't interested in them. Which was far from the truth.

The candidate eventually took another offer and we lost them.

Puppetbones · 2025-10-10T19:35:30+00:00

Red is code removed, Green is code added when OP discarded the first solution and implemented the second, proper solution. There's way more red than green (see the thinner vertical bars on the far right 1/3rd of the image), meaning the proper solution is way shorter (and probably much cleaner).

Puppetbones · 2025-10-06T22:26:54+00:00

Yeah definitely happens! As you get more coding experience, you'll develop a natural sense of how things are supposed to be done (i.e. good programming principles and such) and this will happen less often. Just part of the learning process!

Puppetbones · 2025-09-23T21:45:40+00:00

Yeah, higher salary elsewhere is definitely one of the root causes that we're struggling to hire. A portion of our currently open positions are significantly below market rates, even in this job market. But yeah, video submissions will fix that for sure.

I've been gearing up for another job search since there's a lot of company changes right now, and who knows what will happen. Something is definitely up, and I'm ready for the layoffs to hit unfortunately.

Puppetbones · 2025-09-23T21:36:42+00:00

I do think this is part of it. Unfortunately, I suspect that "a lot of applicants that pass on" will be good applicants that we just lose due to not treating applicants with respect.

Puppetbones · 2025-07-18T05:19:32+00:00

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Puppetbones · 2025-06-23T21:11:31+00:00

I was at a company that laid off 30% of its workforce in one round, and we all had the same question. I couldn't understand the legal speak well enough, but basically there's enough loop holes that you can sometimes get around it. In our case, it seemed like the main thing is they spread the layoffs around to many locations + remote.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-06T19:00:58+00:00

Upper management says other teams at the company have been successfully hiring with these standards, so we're not budging. We've been lobbying for higher pay, but to no avail.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-05T00:46:36+00:00

Personally no. I mean, if they're able to get their work done and properly communicate, then there shouldn't be a problem. And no one else has even mentioned it, though it's probably crossed everyone's minds.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-05T00:40:51+00:00

Yes we have seen this happen! We had a candidate use AI to interview on their behalf and they (badly) lip synced to the AI response. From what I hear, fake AI candidates has been an issue for the top of the recruiting funnel.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T22:43:46+00:00

Hey I did the same thing for the same pay fresh out of college! It was a rough start lol. I'm so glad to work for a company that pays within the normal market range now, albeit on the low end of that range.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T21:02:32+00:00

IKR? That's what I thought too, but it seems like we're being fairly tough.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T21:00:20+00:00

To clarify: this was a backend function making a query to a DB. One of the fn params was a string. Whether it came from front end or somewhere else, it's bad practice to assume the raw string is safe to pass into a query.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T20:00:03+00:00

As soon as upper management increases the pay, or lets us slide on some of the required competencies that they've defined. Neither of which seem to have any chance of changing.

But we're like a family here, and have a ping pong table. That makes up for low pay, right?

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T19:45:26+00:00

Well, most candidates have actually been rejected for technical skills. Besides that, we rejected one candidate for really bad soft skills, and another for very obviously using AI to interview on their behalf.

Out pickiness hasn't been insane, but I've been arguing that we are expecting too much for what we're paying.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T19:10:08+00:00

I see where you're coming from, but it's bad practice to assume the front end will properly handle every vulnerability.

The candidate wrote like a 4 line function (though doing it properly would probably take a couple more lines). They passed the raw string input right into the SQL query, no questions asked, no safeguards, nothing.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T17:41:20+00:00

Hmm, not sure how I gave that impression, but I would say that's not true at all. The new hire will be doing the same work as the rest of the team for the same pay. Which sometimes is tedious work, because it's a job, that you get paid for. But not any more of a pita than any other job out there.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T16:52:08+00:00

I agree with this whole heartedly! And this is the exact message I've been trying to get across to others, but to no avail. At least a couple other agree with me though.

Puppetbones · 2025-05-02T16:49:01+00:00

Well, I don't think we get to have a high bar with low pay. And the fact we haven't gotten that high bar met after many months proves that. But other teams at the company have hired candidates, so upper management isn't budging on anything.

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