Not sure what the down voting is about. Things that lead me to this conclusion: "...and remind you that this is the hacker company. Of course this is all a lie:

Not sure what the down voting is about. Things that lead me to this conclusion: "...and remind you that this is the hacker company. Of course this is all a lie: that's how you get fired." And "It was clear that the person who talked to me had no idea what she was talking about. She quickly confessed as much to me." The author is referring to the HR member who was conducting the investigation. It was probably a technical task that the author of the article performed with someone else's creds or by bypassing some security system (checking in code, deploying code to prod., etc.) which is why the HR member "had no idea what she was talking about [and] quickly confessed to [the author] as much." The HR team was highly interested in finding out "...whether somebody had asked me to do it" and "...if you were not sure of what you were doing, why didn't you ask your manager?" HR wanted to know if the anonymous author had permission to perform the task since the anonymous author's account did not have the appropriate permissions to do so. "If a week prior, I had typed a few different keystrokes, I would never have been in that room."