What's the most unexpected job offer you got?

Ex-colleague reached out to me from UK with immediate job offer (without any interviews because she had already worked with me in the past), including visa-sponsorship, in a company with decent salary and WLB.

Didn't join because I wasn't looking to go out of India at that point in time. 😅

I prepared for frontend roles, gave interviews for the frontend, but they hired me for Backend. Guess i was really bad!!

My first ever job. I'm from a non core branch; I had just been doing development projects/internships as I was a bit interested in that line of things. Come placement time; everyone was applying for every kind of company since core anyway had no prospects (just engineering things....). There was a lot of pressure Since a lot of companies didn't even consider my department. One of those days I took a test for a software development position at a fairly known brand (among others), got shortlisted, had a few interview rounds (including one with their cto). Apart from standard ds problems we were mostly talking about my projects. I even played a game with one of the interviewers on my phone that i made. At the end of it all the HR announced that they would like to extend me an offer.

Back then… when not getting placed was also a very likely possibility any job with a lesser-known brand or lower pay would've felt like a win. Amidst all that tension this offer was definitely reaching for the stars. Needless to say... I took the offer !