I am a student at Christ University (ex Welham School, where I was the topper😏).
Here is my story :
22nd of April, and two things happened:
I got an offer from Grapevine🤩 (yes, the same cool startup where you are reading this message) My learnings would have been immense, and I was genuinely very excited to be at the WeWork office with them.
Out of 800 applicants, I make it to the top 8 shortlisted candidates for Zomato (after multiple rounds)💪 I desperately wanted to see the results of Zomato before I decided where to take up the internship offer. But Zomato delayed the results for 3 days, a day at a time.
24th of April I get a call from Grapevine asking me to confirm the offer. I told them my predicament, and that I am expecting results from Zomato, so please give me 1 more day (end of Thursday).🥺
25th of April, 4 PM😌: I had made up my mind to accept the grapevine offer despite Zomato's results. I even sorted the technicalities out with my placement coordinator. 6 PM😰: Unfortunately, I got a message from Grapevine that my offer had been revoked. I requested that I am willing to join them. But they informed me that they had given the offer to someone else in the morning. 7 PM😭: Zomato published its results, and I was not selected.
Now I am left with no internship option. I realise that I should not have waited for Zomato results and accepted the offer in hand, which would have been a great learning experience.
Neither of the companies is to be blamed but, was I at so much at fault to be penalised so severely? What would you have done if you were in my position?
And I have just 1 week to find a new internship in the middle of my final exams. Please suggest what should I do? If you can help, please help.🥹🤞
What was the point posting this here? Were you expecting sympathy for your own terrible choices?
Is there any harm is showing sympathy? But she clearly mentioned why she has posted. She is asking for help. Also advise and your perspective on what she should have done? Objective of such forums is to support each other especially in difficult times. Not to make them feel worse.
The problem of being nice is giving a false illusion that they were not at fault. Its okay to feel worse. It would only push someone motivated enough to make the right moves and to never repeat the same mistake again. The corporate world is not a nice place.
An example where "Honesty is not the best policy".
As you said, you can't blame GV because they must have candidates lined up willing to join them while they were an option to you (they believed you wouldn't join them if you get zomato offer, because you said you are waiting for it).
Just learn from this - it's your first corporate lesson. You seem like someone who will do a great job wherever you will be. Just put out your skills, roles/companies you are interested in here and people can help with referrals.
Yes, I learned that now the hard way. Thank you for putting it this way. I was looking out for roles in the product domain. My skills include design and marketing.
Maintain the connection you made. Sometimes one can get a second shot at a later point purely because they stayed in touch.
Yes totally, it was a nice conversation I had with them.
Tough to expect a company to wait while you can evaluate your options. If they had other options, it makes sense that they would go ahead with another candidate
You took a risk to wait for an offer you wanted more but it didn't pay off. Happens to the best of us, that's how one learns in the corporate world :)
Since you're based out of bangalore - reach out to other startup founders over linkedin, I'm sure there would be multiple who would be looking to have someone help the team
yes, that's the plan. thank you
None of the grapevine employees have commented on this post. All afraid of hr😉?
Will Grapevine contribute to this grapevine? It would be a true success of their platform, if they actually give back the offer. Otherwise, a student and everybody learns the wrong lesson "honesty is not the best policy." Come on Grapevine. Small decision for you. But a big message to the community. @grapevine @Grapevineunofficial @grapevine_admin
Great! You have worded that perfectly @WhichSir8
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