Job searching can be a painful process, and trying to stand out from a crowd through an electronic submission is difficult to do, meaning that you'll probably submit hundreds of applications to jobs—most of which you'll never hear back from. In a hundred submissions, you might hear back from a few—let's say 5%—so five interviews per 100 applications, which is a generous estimate. Of these five, you'll actually sit a first-round interview for three, hopefully getting asked to come back by two of them for a round two interview and proceeding further with one of them.
So, with all of this in mind, with the huge amount of time and effort to get to the point of an interview, it can be easy to get desperate and let the sunk cost fallacy take hold, committing yourself to a role despite obvious red flags and bait-and-switch tactics. With certainty, even if you don't end up taking the role, it is extremely difficult to up and leave an interview, preferring to at least see it through in the hopes that it might eventuate to something.
These candidates shared the interview experiences that led them to realize that things just weren't going to work out here, choosing to depart earlier rather than endure another moment.
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