[Arisaka1]

I had a similar experience when I was interviewing for a company and got down with fever and intense coughing, with the HR guy saying "so you cannot attend the interview". Sure, lemme just drive by your company in a woozy state and answer every technical question while getting interrupted by a tingling sensation in my right lung that causes coughing every 10-15 seconds like a germ machine gun.

After explaining to them my situation (which was audibly bad even through phone) I asked them to postpone for next week. They hired someone else. Turns out there is such a thing as uncaring people who just see you as a cog that facilitates their money-printing company. It is what it is.

[ceras]

Just to play devil's advocate, the other candidate may have given the company a deadline, and so the company may have needed to pass on the other candidate in order to accommodate your timeline.

Not saying this is what happened here, but there are reasons why an outcome that appears cold can, upon digging, result from everyone ultimately acting in good faith.

[MathCodeLove]

Ah yes they should have put their plans on hold so they could interview someone they don't yet know or have any reason to trust.

After all, everyone know that these companies are in business for the convienence of their (potential) employees. Not to do anythig radical like, idk, be successful or make money.

[risyachka]

That's why is always amazes me when employees show loyalty to the company without understanding that company is just a business. And their loyalty is a one-way street.

[servercobra]

One of my friends was interviewing at a popular nonprofit. 6 interviews in and it was down to her and one other candidate. She asked to postpone her 7th (!!) interview a week because her grandmother died and she was flying home for the funeral. They hired the other candidate in the mean time. I told her it sounds like a place you wouldn't want to work anyway, but it still stings.