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I'm sceptical. How do they know they spooked him? There are no details lost on that. Did they just jump at him with a number? Or did they clarify they thought he was a great candidate, making them willing to skip some steps?

All good companies i've ever worked at had a fairly fast hiring process as they knew what they wanted and did research on their own on me, while the ones that stuck to the numbers ended up being full of incompetent or outright inhuman people.



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