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That's the reason why you still need to do interviews. Do feed out such folks. Even if you only catch them by accident.


I do not think that guy was only caught by accident. More red flags would have been raised if there had been further interviews.


I wish there was some sort of social-equivalent of FizzBuzz. Something that will filter out 90% of people who are, well, Adam.


This interview was exactly this thing. It filtered out Adam. :)




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