There are places that interview people with no intent of hiring them, but rather to prove a point: "We can't find anyone with the right skill set, therefore we

There are places that interview people with no intent of hiring them, but rather to prove a point: "We can't find anyone with the right skill set, therefore we must do X." Values of X may include: - Outsource - Find a cheap, indentured H1B employee - Choose another technology path that was ignored due to politics - Stick it to a manager who insisted that "anyone" could do this - Use the inability to hire a new person as an excuse to steal someone from another team in the company In the end, the interviewee is merely a pawn in the scheme of things.