Pomelo interview questions

Interview process was straightforward. Interviewed with an in-house recruiter, and spoke to the hiring manager twice before an offer was made. Unfortunately, I had resigned from a Big Tech firm to take up the offer, with my Employment Pass cancelled in the meantime as well, but due to the sudden UK market downturn and falling GBP (the company’s primary cost base is in the UK, including their main investor), the offer was withdrawn 3 working days before I was due to start, leaving me completely in the lurch with no job, no right to remain in Singapore, with the pittance that is one week’s salary to live on (compounded by rising living costs). Worst part is this news was communicated to me by someone I had never spoken to previously, and just two days prior the company’s HR system had sent onboarding information to fill out. This clearly wasn’t updated following the news, as the system reminded me to fill it up even after the offer was withdrawn! While I understand that the state of global markets are unpredictable, the fact that the role wasn’t already priced in and that one market’s performance could shake the entire company’s financial standing leads me to believe that I was somewhat blindsided during the interview process about the company’s purported financial stability. As a result, I am now facing months of being thousands of dollars out of pocket, as well as potentially facing being removed from Singapore thanks to the absolute mess of a situation. Proceed with caution if interviewing with them.

The interview process was smooth and efficiently set up by the recruiters. I spoke to both in-house and external recruiters during this process. Had 3 interviews excluding the conversations with the recruiters. All in all, it took 2-3 weeks from interview to job offer which was professionally managed.