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The economy is dead

Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Oct 5 09:05:36 2026

I saw this horror story on Reddit:

An insurance company reached out to me. I didn't apply. They came to me.

Screening, hiring manager, hiring manager's manager, team panel, case study, board deck, HR final. Seven rounds across six weeks.

I passed all of them. Scored top marks on the take-home. Clean background check. HR said "the team really liked you."

Then I got the offer. In writing. Start date locked.

I did all the "right" things: stopped interviewing elsewhere, turned down two other active processes, started looking at apartments in that city.

The night before, I set three alarms. My calendar said "First day!!!"

Then at 8 a.m., one hour before I was supposed to log on, HR called.

"I'm so sorry, but the CEO personally reviewed your resume and decided you don't have enough years of experience, so we're rescinding the offer."

The CEO.

The CEO who sat in zero of the seven interviews. The CEO who hadn't looked at my resume once in six weeks. The CEO who let HR, the hiring manager, and an entire team run a full 1.5-month process, let me reject other offers, let me stop job hunting entirely.

He glanced at my resume in the final hour and said "nah."

So now I'm sitting here with a revoked offer, two declined interviews, and a resume gap that just got two months longer.

Someone in this sub once said "they wait until you start believing before they destroy you." Truer words.

To everyone still grinding in this market: don't stop applying. Not until the badge is physically around your neck.

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