robotsareonlysometimesright replied to your post “PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests…”

I found the lecture this is from, and, huh. In context it isn’t framed as a criticism at all, it sounds like Levchin and Thiel are genuinely arguing this was a sound decision because the candidate would have said he was going to play hoops and his coworkers would have been put off and where would team cohesion be then? Astonishing.

Yeah.  TBH I haven’t looked at the source in any detail – it was linked in a blog post I was reading, and I skimmed it trying to find the reason the blogger linked to it, and then I hit that paragraph and was like wait, what?!, so I went back to tumblr, #quoted it, and then decided to close the browser in search of productivity