That has happened to me before. Also: we did a reorg and the team you were interviewing with no longer exists. Also: the manager who made you an offer was fired, so we are rescinding your offer.
My favorite was when the CEO decided to put an immediate moratorium on hiring and just fired all the recruiters, so my whole interview process suddenly went cold. I had no idea why until I eventually read about it in the news.
Yes, the Days of the Truman Show memes are upon us!
Glad I finally watched it for the first time two weeks ago!
In my experience it’s the other way around. I mean why promote somebody who knows how everything works when you could get some jackass who’s failed upward high enough to get your old bossc job? That way they can come in with their “great” ideas, screw everything up, and then fail upwards some more.
Likely playing you both off each other and seeing where they can get a better deal
