Coastal_crusher

Sales Director

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The Sign of our Times (A short vent)

- Be me

- Go through a series of 5 interviews

- Prepare a deck and present to a panel

- Receive verbal offer

- Wait for weeks for HR to sort their shit out, meanwhile being promised everything is A-ok

- Company lays off chunk of people and eliminates the role

- Back to square one

Actually, don't be me. My mistake was not continuing to interview while waiting for the paperwork. But you ever get to the point where you're excited to start/tired of interviews that you stop the search.

I have never been blue balled so hard. FML

End rant. Happy selling and wish me luck!

- CC 🌊🏝️

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Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

Last year, I video-recorded all 3 of my interviews with a SaaS tech giant, obviously without the interviewers' knowledge by strategically placing my camera and headphones so as to be not visible in the zoom call.

In the final interview, I have the hiring manager recorded on video, saying these words to me - "I'm looking forward to seeing you in the office two weeks from now".

So I stop my job hunt immediately. Couple of weeks later, I get a poorly written email from HR stating that someone else got the role.

Fast forward to this year, the said SaaS tech giant was in the news for laying off thousands, twice! The person who got the role instead of me was laid off too.

So it turns out, I avoided getting laid off and got 3 hours' worth of real interview content. I'm working on releasing it on YouTube in bits n pieces.

o-HAH-na ✌️

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Wow, that's truly savage. Love it.

DalJigsaw

Contributor

Business Development and Account Manager

Dang! I had something similar happen recently with 5 interviews and a verbal offer from Executive Vice President and one week later I get a call from a recruiter who’s been amazing and he is shocked himself. Turns out I didn’t have enough experience and that decision came from the CEO. There’s more to this story but it sounds like a normal day in the sales, hiring market.

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Oof!! Haha yeah I’ve been wanting to avoid corporate circlejerks like that one. And the CEO has the audacity to brag about ‘best Q ever’ after cutting a chunk of his ‘family’. You done dodged a bullet for sure. Maybe I did too!

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

Amen to that

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

What a lesson. Ty.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

I feel this, @Coastal_crusher-- except mine was blocked by the board after the C-suite and HR all approved the offer. Totally sucks to get hyped then deflated.

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Brah...I'm sorry to hear that, plain ridiculous really. Why would you waste company time interviewing just to cut the role. Raising a glass to our shared struggle haha

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Dude. This blows. Now you know what to look for in potential companies moving forward. ❤🦊

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Thanks Foxy, that’s as true as it comes ❤️🏝️

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Sorry to hear that, hope everything works out in the search. Who knows maybe a better offer in the future

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Thanks KK. Ya thats the right attitude - when one door closes...

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

That sucks and its a painful lesson to learn. Its never over till its over. I have been there too - got an offer and then it never materialized. You just got to keep looking - and even when the offer comes and you actually start, keep looking!

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Just keep swimming for sure! Thanks @Pachacuti

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Damn, sorry. Appreciate the lessons learned, and seriously hope the next offer is even better.

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

@Sunbunny31 onward and upward always :)

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

Brutal; Sorry you had to go through this.

Hopefully this means there is something better coming on the other side.

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

That sucks so much after running the whole process :/

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

Times are wild right now. Don’t let it impact you. These decisions that get made are not a reflection on you at all.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Something aweosme instore for you.

Coastal_crusher

Politicker

Sales Director

Gracias Diablo

podescre

Director of Sales

I feel you bro!

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

I hope you got the job!

Future reference, just trust the gut.

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