This guy sounds like a good manager, that took his responsibilities in vetting candidates, seriously. Kind of a "unicorn," these days, it seems. Many managers are tossed the CV, ten minutes before the interview, and are yanked off of whatever critical project they were stressing over, to do an interview.
I would probably have been fooled by the applicant's screening interview, but it would have rapidly come apart, in the ensuing steps.
My team was a very small team of high-functioning C++ programmers, where each member was Responsible for some pretty major functionality.
This kind of thing might be something they could get away with, in larger organizations, where they would get lost in the tall grass, but smaller outfits -especially ones where everyone is on the critical path, like startups- would expose the miscreant fairly quickly.
I would probably have been fooled by the applicant's screening interview, but it would have rapidly come apart, in the ensuing steps.
My team was a very small team of high-functioning C++ programmers, where each member was Responsible for some pretty major functionality.
This kind of thing might be something they could get away with, in larger organizations, where they would get lost in the tall grass, but smaller outfits -especially ones where everyone is on the critical path, like startups- would expose the miscreant fairly quickly.