Vantaggi
there were simply no pros to this situation
Svantaggi
I was approached by SumUp on LinkedIn (I curse this day now). I was requested to interview for a Golang role. I successfully passed the take-home challenge and all 4 further interviews. I was given an offer which I signed. At the time I was extremely happy about this. I was genuinely excited about taking on new challenges at what I thought was a great company. I resigned at my previous employer and worked out my notice period. I studied hard to become familiar with SumUp's tech stack so I could hit the ground running on arrival. However, about a week and a bit before I was due to start I was told that I needed to meet to discuss what was referred to as "some noise". In that meeting it was explained to me that SumUp had enforced a hiring freeze and that they did not plan to honour outstanding contracts. So the position I signed for simply no longer existed. My contract was rescinded and I was hung out to dry.