I applied through the university's Co-op office and received an offer to work in the San Francisco office starting this coming January.

In early October, I contacted the person who gave me the offer to change my start date. However, the response I received was from another person, who works at the Nashua, NH office, stating that I had been relocated to the Nashua office with a decrease in salary due to a company "policy change."

When I responded that I was confused by such a sudden change, as I had already begun arranging a car lease and housing in San Francisco, the person replied that they didn't understand why I had done so when I didn't have an official offer letter.

I found that to be very rude, since Arista clearly did give me an offer through the university's office. If that's how Arista conducts its recruitment business, I wouldn't want to work for Arista anyway, because I can already sense how the company treats its people.

As a student, I don't mind too much about a salary decrease. But, let's be honest, would you work for Google if you had to work in the most random city where you don't have your family or friends around?

If your engineers cannot properly handle both engineering and recruitment tasks, hire more HR people.

This kind of recruitment process is simply not acceptable.

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