Headway (NY) Software Engineer interview experience

The process had momentum, and I was even scheduled to meet someone from my new team to continue the next stage.

Then the finish line moved. A week after I was told I passed, I was informed that leadership was changing headcount and hiring strategy, which was hard to reconcile with how far I’d already gone. In another stretch of this same kind of letdown, I was told I’d passed interviews and references and was set for a recruiter call about offer details, only for that call to be canceled at the last minute. After I reached back out, the explanation was that leadership didn’t have full