>I myself have interviewed 400+ people and have definitely had cases where I got people hired over objections because I thought they were really good. You brou

>I myself have interviewed 400+ people and have definitely had cases where I got people hired over objections because I thought they were really good. You brought up (perhaps inadvertently) a good point here , most interviewers in the field are young, and their callowness is obvious, often you need senior people with the vetoing power to override their shallow analysis of a candidate.