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Is your visa still valid? If so, move to London anyways. You've already quit your job and sold your stuff. Chances are if you qualified for Google, you'll find work there. In for a penny, in for a pound, as the Brits say.
There’s no great solution to this apart from the economy and company doing well so that this doesnt happen. I’ll lay out the reasons below: 1. Let’s say we pass a law that prevents offers from being revoked. This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10 and involve many more committees and even then most candidates other than sureshots getting rejected. 2. Ban revoking offers only for overseas em…
Pulling the rug out underneath a new employee who is days away from starting and moving his whole life to a new country is simply shitty behaviour.
Instead send a resignation email the morning you start at the new company.
This seems fair and reasonable given that companies are willing to pull offers.
There’s no great solution to this apart from the economy and company doing well so that this doesnt happen. I’ll lay out the reasons below: 1. Let’s say we pass a law that prevents offers from being revoked. This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10 and involve many more committees and even then most candidates other than sureshots getting rejected. 2. Ban revoking offers only for overseas em…
Blaming firing people before their start date on economy and company seems like one hell of a stretch, especially a profitable one like google.
I worked at Google for 0 days. There. Fixed that for you.
There’s no great solution to this apart from the economy and company doing well so that this doesnt happen. I’ll lay out the reasons below: 1. Let’s say we pass a law that prevents offers from being revoked. This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10 and involve many more committees and even then most candidates other than sureshots getting rejected. 2. Ban revoking offers only for overseas em…
Having an offer rescinded for 'business reasons' is unbelievably annoying, and the author has my sympathy. That said, it's kind of understandable too. Things happen. The landscape changes. Some people will be affected. You kind of have to roll with it sometimes. I wish the author the best of luck finding something else quickly. What I find truly incredible though is that it took a full year to go from application to…
From the candidate's perspective, it took a year. But from the team's perspective, it might have been only a month or so, because team matching typically starts only after interviews are complete and the hiring packet has been reviewed.
Sorry this happened to you. I’d obviously not your fault. I want to give general advice for people changing jobs in the future. Don’t quit your first job until you’ve physically started your second job. Take sick leave. Take vacations. Just don’t show up if you have no other option. This is particularly the case if your immigration status is dependent on employment but it applies generally. Companies will not hesitat…
There’s no great solution to this apart from the economy and company doing well so that this doesnt happen. I’ll lay out the reasons below: 1. Let’s say we pass a law that prevents offers from being revoked. This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10 and involve many more committees and even then most candidates other than sureshots getting rejected. 2. Ban revoking offers only for overseas em…
The problem isn't quality of candidate, the problem is unknown business changes. Sitting on your hands for 10 rounds vs 5 won't fix those unknowns.
Certainly companies might respond this way, but it makes no sense and won't actually prevent them from giving an offer to someone in the face of unknown layoffs.
Sorry this happened to you. I’d obviously not your fault. I want to give general advice for people changing jobs in the future. Don’t quit your first job until you’ve physically started your second job. Take sick leave. Take vacations. Just don’t show up if you have no other option. This is particularly the case if your immigration status is dependent on employment but it applies generally. Companies will not hesitat…
Not that I'm arguing for or against it, I just want to visualize how this works.