The last job ended badly. The head of engineering, the poster says, lied about a performance plan. Severance helped. So did the time off.
Then the long stretch: more than a hundred applications, eight or more interview loops scheduled, three full processes run. Rejected from two. The third landed — a better job, a higher salary, better name recognition, better options ahead.
Weeks before, this person had sat at their desk and cried, convinced the career was over. The point of posting, they wrote, was simple: losing a job is not always the ending it feels like.