"a company that praises itself of hiring some of the most smartest people in the field?" Maybe because they are oblivious to the big difference between being a

"a company that praises itself of hiring some of the most smartest people in the field?" Maybe because they are oblivious to the big difference between being a good developer, being generally smart, and being a decent person? These really are entirely different things, and selecting for the former would not necessarily give you the latter. And I very much doubt that they were selecting for the last one at all lately. If ever.