Apparently Christine failed to notice that the code doesn't respond to the requirements as they're laid out. She would have at least had a better reason for rej

Apparently Christine failed to notice that the code doesn't respond to the requirements as they're laid out. She would have at least had a better reason for rejecting the Carpenter: she could have said "writes unreadable code that doesn't even respond to requirements". However, the fact that Christine couldn't even tell that the code was not working reinforces the correctness of her hunch: hypnotized by the unreadable code, neither her or the interviewee could see clearly that it wasn't fit for the intended purpose. And this is clearly a serious issue. I agree that an interview should be more interactive than that, but one could easily blame the Carpenter for having transformed the answer to a simple question into a long monologue that lead nowhere. I can't help but feeling he got what he deserved, although I'm afraid that, in the real world, his confidence and command of technicalities would have gained him the job on the spot.