>> Didn't Google at some point decide a guy who developed a VM or interpreter or something that they were using in-house was only good enough to be a sysadmin f

>> Didn't Google at some point decide a guy who developed a VM or interpreter or something that they were using in-house was only good enough to be a sysadmin for them? > You're probably thinking of Max Howell, the maker of the Homebrew package manager. My memory is very fallible, but I don't think that's it. I'm sure there are several similar incidents, and the one I'm thinking of definitely involved a sysadmin role and maybe even an offer. The issue was that the role was an insultingly bad fit, not that a talented person got rejected.