New Delhi, June 2 -- Turning down a lucrative offer from a tech giant in this tight job market sounds almost like career suicide. However, after six months of rigorous preparation and interviewing, one candidate said a hard "NO" to their dream job at Amazon. The reason? A conversation with the hiring manager.

While the candidate's friends and family questioned their sanity, a US recruiter backed the decision and warned that accepting an offer out of sheer exhaustion carries a massive, invisible price tag.

In a viral LinkedIn post, Shreya Mehta, a US-based recruiter, shared that she knows someone who rejected a job offer from Amazon. "This was the role they had been targeting for six months. They had prepared for it, interviewed for it, ...