Red Hat Software Engineer interview experience

I was told I’d been selected and even got into compensation discussions, along with a tentative start date. At that point, it felt like I was moving from evaluation into real-life onboarding steps.

The problem was what happened after that. When a system rejection email unexpectedly triggered, HR told me in writing to ignore it as a system error. I relied on those confirmations and turned down other active opportunities because the conversations were so concrete. For a while, everything looked aligned—until about ten days later, my portal status changed to declined.

When I escalated, the