The whole affair seemed stupid for me when I first read about it. The obvious position for this guy at google is "making sure that google open-source products a

The whole affair seemed stupid for me when I first read about it. The obvious position for this guy at google is "making sure that google open-source products are popular among developers" and he is obviously well-qualified for it. I don't know why he applied specifically for a run-of-the-mill software engineer position, but if google HR were a bit more flexible, they should have asked him "Hey, are you sure? How about this other thing instead?" instead of going through a lot of whiteboarding interviews.