# Five Rounds, a Case Study, and an Offer Pulled Two Days Before Day One

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via LinkedIn (viral post)

Five interview rounds. A case study. Office visits. Several rounds of discussion. By the end of it she had an offer letter in hand and a start date circled.

Two days before she was due to begin, the company withdrew it.

The reason given: the employee who was leaving had decided to stay.

She compared the whole exercise to speed dating — no alignment, no accountability — and pointed at the double standard underneath it. Candidates, she wrote, are expected to be available immediately, clear every round, and finish unpaid assignments on deadline. A company, meanwhile, can pull an offer forty-eight hours out and call it unfortunate circumstances.

Her line for the offer letter itself was the one that travelled: it is not a maybe, it is a commitment. People build plans around it. They turn down other jobs. They tell their families.

The post drew the usual split — sympathy, and the counter-argument that candidates renege too. Neither changes the arithmetic for the person who has to start looking again.

*Source: [Moneycontrol · viral LinkedIn post](https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/my-offer-letter-got-revoked-2-days-before-joining-haryana-woman-slams-poor-hiring-discipline-13934656.html)*
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