So...if he had gotten the code right, he would have taken this job and his current job? Because that's the only way his five lines of code are worth $20,000 apiece.
Yes, and he'd have to hold the job for exactly one year, then quit. A better title would have been "Five lines of code cost me a job interview", which is so unremarkable as to not be worth reading.
The most surprising thing in the article, really, is that he managed to have thirty interviews without having an experience like this.
