Crippling anxiety and social phobia are not things I would want in an employee, all else equal, It's not that their anxiety is crippling; it's that for various

Crippling anxiety and social phobia are not things I would want in an employee, all else equal, It's not that their anxiety is crippling; it's that for various reasons, the hiring process is typically conducted in a way that is at best often careless and inconsiderate to the candidate -- and quite often needlessly stressful and confrontational. In other words, the people who sometimes get tripped by such processes aren't demonstrating "crippling anxiety"; they're demonstrating perfectly normal, human traits.