You're speculating in the same breath with which you say not to speculate. We don't know why they interviewed her, and frankly we interview people fairly often

You're speculating in the same breath with which you say not to speculate. We don't know why they interviewed her, and frankly we interview people fairly often that don't have the requisite experience on paper because we know it often has little to do with what's on the paper, a lesson HN readers are VERY familiar with (the whole "meritocracy" thing).