Candidate lands a high-paying job after five rounds of interviews, but quits on day one over a misrepresented role

Imagine you have landed a high-paying job, but on Day 1, you realize they misrepresented the job role, only to get you to say 'yes' to it. Now, while some may continue with the company because, of course, the compensation is great, others may quit on the spot, feeling cheated by the recruiters. A person (u/8nakul) hired as a "Senior Backend Engineer," chose their self-respect over money and resigned within hours of their first day. They shared the incident on Reddit on November 25.

The person had to go through five rounds of interviews to bag the role. "I did a system design round, two LeetCode hard rounds, and a behavioral interview where they emphasized 'innovation' and 'building scalable architecture,'" they wrote. The company offered a good salary, and the tech stack was listed as Golang and AWS, so the person decided to join the organization. Anyhow, they showed up in the office on a Monday morning for onboarding, only to find they had been cheated. As soon as they arrived, they were handed a laptop with login credentials and were asked to meet the team lead. "He hands me a headset. I asked, 'What's this for?' He looked at me, confused, and said, 'For the client calls. We’re a little backed up on tickets right now, so for the first 6-12 months, you’ll be handling Tier 3 support tickets to 'learn the product,'" the person recalled.

They were obviously shocked and asked him about the architectural work. To this, the team lead laughed and said, "That's not what they do. That's handled by the offshore team. We just patch the fires they start," he added. The person didn't even wait till their lunch and walked up to HR to call it quits. They told them that the role was completely different from what was described in the contract. "The VP of Engineering actually called me while I was driving home to scream at me for 'wasting their resources.' Bullet dodged," they added. 

Employers misleading candidates during job interviews happens more often than not. In fact, when ResumeBuilder.com surveyed 1,060 managers and business leaders involved in hiring, they found that 4 in 10 lie to the candidates in the hiring process. They also found that 75% lied in the interview, while 52% in the job description, and 24% in the offer letter. Meanwhile, reacting to the story, u/anshchauhann commented, "It's a classic bait and switch situation; you handled it perfectly. The fact that they had the audacity to call and yell shows exactly why you made the right call. Name them on Blind." u/bettertemperature451, who had a similar experience to the author, wrote, "I remember I got a job as a software engineer. On the first day, some dude I never met in the interview takes me out on a field assignment and tells me, 'You won't do any of that here.' It was 6 months of hell. I ended up suing them for a back injury. $20K was a nice bonus. Then I was put on a desk job and actually did software engineering."

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