u/Formal_Proposal_8589

Applied in May for Sr. Program Manager.

Went through the full process:

AI interview
Hiring Manager interview
Panel + presentation
Evidence of Excellence
Sr. HR Partner interview

Received a conditional offer on June 24. I accepted on July 2. After that it sat in “final VP/leadership approval” for over a month. Recruiter kept saying it was with the final approvers and they were dealing with performance reviews + executive changes. Multiple follow-ups, same response.

On August 14 the recruiter called and said the role had been cancelled due to a director decision. She offered to share my profile with other recruiters.

Curious if anyone else has had a conditional offer get cancelled this late in the process, or if long approval delays followed by role cancellation is common right now.

I need to vent because honestly, I feel like everything is collapsing around me. I’m a PM with over 6 years of experience, I have a Master's in Engineering Management, and the last few months of interviewing have completely broken my spirit.

I’ve done everything right. I take the straight road, I don't cut corners, and I put in dozens of hours preparing for these loops. I show up honest and ready to work, but I just keep getting the rug pulled out from under me at the very last second. And if the standard rejections aren't soul-crushing enough, there’s the visa sponsorship wall. It feels like an entirely separate layer of hell where even if a team loves me, the second sponsorship comes up, the door just slams in my face.

At Meta, I cleared the HM round and the loop. The director liked me so much he asked me to add him on LinkedIn. The recruiter set up a call, delayed it by a week, and then rejected me. The director later told me they loved me but went with someone with "bigger scale". Google? Cleared the HM, did the whole exhausting loop, got a vague generic no. Amazon? The loop went amazing, I clicked with almost everyone. Rejected. I had to follow up multiple times just to be told I wasn't a "fit" before they ghosted me completely. Tesla said I had no gaps and the team loved me, but they just happened to find a "better candidate". Apple straight up ghosted me after reaching out.

But the ones that really broke me were the ones where I thought it was a done deal. I interviewed for an Ops Manager role at a Brooklyn-based firm. Cleared the HM round, went onsite. Met the team, met the CEO. It went so well they were literally showing me internal company files. I went home thinking, finally, the nightmare is over. I have a job. Rejected. Zero feedback.

I went onsite for Astrodyne TDI, met three managers, kept in touch with all of them... only to find out the hiring manager was leaving. They reposted the role and ghosted me. At Cubic, I had virtual rounds, got asked to come onsite to their NY office to meet more managers, and then got a no. At Augment Technologies, I got through to a peer round only to have the guy spend the whole time flexing his experience over mine, even though I hit every single requirement on the JD. Shipmonk? Promised they'd get back to me, ghosted.

I’m so tired. I've built competing products from the ground up working with devs and UI/UX teams. I’ve led NPI, Supply Chain, and manufacturing teams. I know how to do this job, and I know I'm good at it because I keep making it to the final hour. But putting my heart and soul into prepping, playing fair, and getting this close over and over again—only to be blocked by vague excuses or sponsorship hurdles—is destroying me.

If anyone's company is hiring for a Program Manager, Operations Manager, or Supply Chain PM and would be willing to offer a referral or even just a chat, I would be incredibly grateful. I just need a lifeline right now.

I need to vent because honestly, I feel like everything is collapsing around me. I’m a PM with over 6 years of experience, I have a Master's in Engineering Management, and the last few months of interviewing have completely broken my spirit.

I’ve done everything right. I take the straight road, I don't cut corners, and I put in dozens of hours preparing for these loops. I show up honest and ready to work, but I just keep getting the rug pulled out from under me at the very last second. And if the standard rejections aren't soul-crushing enough, there’s the visa sponsorship wall. It feels like an entirely separate layer of hell where even if a team loves me, the second sponsorship comes up, the door just slams in my face.

At Meta, I cleared the HM round and the loop. The director liked me so much he asked me to add him on LinkedIn. The recruiter set up a call, delayed it by a week, and then rejected me. The director later told me they loved me but went with someone with "bigger scale". Google? Cleared the HM, did the whole exhausting loop, got a vague generic no. Amazon? The loop went amazing, I clicked with almost everyone. Rejected. I had to follow up multiple times just to be told I wasn't a "fit" before they ghosted me completely. Tesla said I had no gaps and the team loved me, but they just happened to find a "better candidate". Apple straight up ghosted me after reaching out.

But the ones that really broke me were the ones where I thought it was a done deal. I interviewed for an Ops Manager role at a Brooklyn-based firm. Cleared the HM round, went onsite. Met the team, met the CEO. It went so well they were literally showing me internal company files. I went home thinking, finally, the nightmare is over. I have a job. Rejected. Zero feedback.

I went onsite for Astrodyne TDI, met three managers, kept in touch with all of them... only to find out the hiring manager was leaving. They reposted the role and ghosted me. At Cubic, I had virtual rounds, got asked to come onsite to their NY office to meet more managers, and then got a no. At Augment Technologies, I got through to a peer round only to have the guy spend the whole time flexing his experience over mine, even though I hit every single requirement on the JD. Shipmonk? Promised they'd get back to me, ghosted.

I’m so tired. I've built competing products from the ground up working with devs and UI/UX teams. I’ve led NPI, Supply Chain, and manufacturing teams. I know how to do this job, and I know I'm good at it because I keep making it to the final hour. But putting my heart and soul into prepping, playing fair, and getting this close over and over again, only to be blocked by vague excuses or sponsorship hurdles is destroying me.

If anyone's company is hiring for a Program Manager, Operations Manager, or Supply Chain PM and would be willing to offer a referral or even just a chat, I would be incredibly grateful. I just need a lifeline right now.

P.S - I am mentioning the firm names because I just want to be honest and not sugar coat as I have accepted the rejections

I need to vent because honestly, I feel like everything is collapsing around me. I’m a PM with over 6 years of experience, I have a Master's in Engineering Management, and the last few months of interviewing have completely broken my spirit.

I’ve done everything right. I take the straight road, I don't cut corners, and I put in dozens of hours preparing for these loops. I show up honest and ready to work, but I just keep getting the rug pulled out from under me at the very last second. And if the standard rejections aren't soul-crushing enough, there’s the visa sponsorship wall. It feels like an entirely separate layer of hell where even if a team loves me, the second sponsorship comes up, the door just slams in my face.

At Meta, I cleared the HM round and the loop. The director liked me so much he asked me to add him on LinkedIn. The recruiter set up a call, delayed it by a week, and then rejected me. The director later told me they loved me but went with someone with "bigger scale". Google? Cleared the HM, did the whole exhausting loop, got a vague generic no. Amazon? The loop went amazing, I clicked with almost everyone. Rejected. I had to follow up multiple times just to be told I wasn't a "fit" before they ghosted me completely. Tesla said I had no gaps and the team loved me, but they just happened to find a "better candidate". Apple straight up ghosted me after reaching out.

But the ones that really broke me were the ones where I thought it was a done deal. I interviewed for an Ops Manager role at a Brooklyn-based firm. Cleared the HM round, went onsite. Met the team, met the CEO. It went so well they were literally showing me internal company files. I went home thinking, finally, the nightmare is over. I have a job. Rejected. Zero feedback.

I went onsite for Astrodyne TDI, met three managers, kept in touch with all of them... only to find out the hiring manager was leaving. They reposted the role and ghosted me. At Cubic, I had virtual rounds, got asked to come onsite to their NY office to meet more managers, and then got a no. At Augment Technologies, I got through to a peer round only to have the guy spend the whole time flexing his experience over mine, even though I hit every single requirement on the JD. Shipmonk? Promised they'd get back to me, ghosted.

I’m so tired. I've built competing products from the ground up working with devs and UI/UX teams. I’ve led NPI, Supply Chain, and manufacturing teams. I know how to do this job, and I know I'm good at it because I keep making it to the final hour. But putting my heart and soul into prepping, playing fair, and getting this close over and over again, only to be blocked by vague excuses or sponsorship hurdles is destroying me.

If anyone's company is hiring for a Program Manager, Operations Manager, or Supply Chain PM and would be willing to offer a referral or even just a chat, I would be incredibly grateful. I just need a lifeline right now.

P.S - I am mentioning the firm names because I just want to be honest and not sugar coat as I have accepted the rejections