Offer letter in hand. Then HR pulled it back.

The warning from one job seeker on X was blunt: even after rolling an offer letter, HR departments are withdrawing candidates. The reasons given — budget issues, reshuffled headcount, or no explanation at all. The poster's advice was pragmatic and slightly grim: get the offer, serve your notice period, but do not assume anything until your first day in the chair. In 2026's hiring market, a signed offer letter increasingly reads less like a contract and more like a provisional handshake — revocable by either side, but almost always by the side holding the budget.