No, some element of the people operation whose job performance is in part judged on getting engineers through the door wanted to hire him. Likely all that pers

No, some element of the people operation whose job performance is in part judged on getting engineers through the door wanted to hire him. Likely all that person cared about was "This engineer will make it X months", where X is based on if the employee separates prior to X the recruiter gets yelled at for sourcing a bad candidate. Other parts of the org clearly had no issues branding the employee as a low performer and target for termination because their performance reviews.