A candidate for a principal product-manager role cleared the onsite and received a verbal offer the same day. Two weeks later the formal offer arrived, and onboarding began: a background check was already running, and the recruiter told the candidate to start hunting for housing in Memphis.
Then the management team that had interviewed him was let go and replaced by a new group brought in from SpaceX. The new hiring manager warned the offer might be adjusted down or pulled entirely. A week after that, it was gone.
The package had been worth roughly $200,000 base, $250,000 in equity, and $50,000 in relocation and signing. On Blind, the candidate framed the sequence as the hazard of hiring at a company mid-restructure: every promise made by the people who interviewed you can be unwritten by the people who replace them.