The most bizarre job interview of one candidate's life required a flight to New York City. They met everyone on the team. Nobody asked a single interview question. Then they were told the company wasn't hiring, and someone on the team asked why they had come to New York at all.
The account, posted to X under a "you couldn't waterboard this out of me" preamble, has about 5,400 likes and 143 replies. The candidate did not name the company. The reply section supplied the genre: loops run against roles that were never open, flights and full days spent on process theatre with no opening behind any of it.
The candidate's summary was deadpan and total. The company wasn't hiring, and nobody had thought to mention it until the candidate was already in the building.