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Not exactly bait and switch, but a long time ago I was looking for a job, had an interview that I aced, I can't overestimate how much I aced it:

• There was a "coding challenge" that was supposed to take half an hour and I finished in 10 min
• They asked a question and my answer was so complete that I could see them turning pages and skipping the next follow up questions
• One of the few times they got to ask me a follow up question which was very related to the work I would be doing the answer was "I would just do the same I'm doing for my master thesis, and proceeded to explain how I have solved that problem on my thesis and later I found out it was roughly the same way they had solved it on their use case.

Then they told me "our initial salary is X, but that's for Juniors, which you clearly aren't, we'll finish this round of interviews and contact you". They contacted me a week later and offered me a Junior role paying X. I can't really said they baited and switched since they didn't change the offer, and what the other person told me was more informal. Since I needed a job and they have accepted me part time while I finished my masters I accepted thinking that once I went full time I would get a raise. Nope, they said they only did reviews and raises annually, and I had started right after that. I worked my ass off for that year, proving to them that I was worth the raise. Got to my annual review and was told everything is excellent, we're bumping you to Junior 2 with a whooping 5% increase in salary...

That's when I decided fuck them. They want a Junior, they'll get a Junior. I started to listen to podcasts and YouTube videos during my work and dragging my feet, taking weeks to do what I would have done in less than a day before, and still outperforming all other juniors. I quit before the next year for unrelated reasons, and went through training a replacement who, let's just say, was really a Junior.