I didn't follow the Max Howell / homebrew story when it originally appeared, but reading about it now from a year's distance, this[0] seems like the best summar

I didn't follow the Max Howell / homebrew story when it originally appeared, but reading about it now from a year's distance, this[0] seems like the best summary (the other quora answers are also illuminating, as is the HN discussion from the time). Regardless, assuming Howell's original narrative ("you couldn't invert a binary tree so goodbye") is the truth, I still don't see why this is "pretty messed up". It's not the olympics where the scoring system is repeatable, objective and well known, or court where lives and livelihood are irreversibly changed". It's an employer, one of many, who decided -- for whatever reasons, which might have been the tree inversion failure -- to not hire Mr. Howell. There's Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, IBM if he wants to work for bigcorp. There's thousands of smaller companies. If someone else hires him, fine; If no one does than the narrative is obviously untrue. [0] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejecting-Max-Howell-the-author-of-Homebrew-for-not-being-able-to-invert-a-binary-tree/answer/Joseph-Janos-1 https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...