I was hired as an Android developer. After 1 year, my manager called me on a Sunday afternoon, and asked me: "do you know HTML?". I said: "yes, who doesn't?". On Monday I was transferred to the web team to work on customer retention.

From the business's point of view, they were trying to plug an urgent hole, from my career's point of view, I wanted to work on mobile Android apps. I moved back to an Android team in a month, which required VP-level approval.

Heh something similar happened to me. Recruiter reached out, insisted role was on a special new team in SFO. I did the full interview cycle (on-site in Seattle, which I later learned is what they do if the role is in SEA..).

It was for an awesome team and org, really up and coming.

I get the congrats message that I’ll be getting an offer. Then find out it’s only for SEA. This is after the recruiter insisted it would be SFO because I didn’t want to relocate for various reasons.

Ah so that’s why they flew me to Seattle.. lol.

Ended up being passed around a few orgs recruiters and took a role in sfo that I finally left after 20 months. Sigh.