Nearly two years into a job search, the candidate had learned to read good news carefully. So when a company scheduled an interview, they cleared the time and waited for the link.
It never arrived. The company cancelled the interview minutes before it was due to start — before the candidate had so much as a way to join the call. There was no rescheduling, no reason offered, no next step.
The post was short, and that was the point. Two years of applications, and the process could still end not with a decision but with an appointment that simply stopped existing. The candidate was, by their own account, on the brink of giving up.