[EliRivers]

Interviewee seemed "odd". Stilted interaction during interview. Technical skills fine enough. Uncommonly, a second interview held with an extra interviewer brought in.

Technical director asked everyone; everyone said "no hire". Technical director hired him anyway, allegedly (but not proven) on the grounds of a bizarre, unshakeable faith in the supremacy of Russian programmers.

About day two, overheard on the phone apparently interviewing for another job. MD noticed he didn't seem to be doing much; asked if he had some work. "No." Do you want some? "No."

Gone on day three.

What went wrong? One person permitted to discount everyone else's opinion and hire a clearly bad candidate anyway, on the grounds of their own personal prejudices.

[thr0waway1239]

Good story, but probably not one answering the question. You only regret something when you realize you ignored all the bad signs initially. In this case, your feeling was probably vindication and not regret.

Besides, if this person was only there for 3 days, its almost as if the whole episode didn't even happen :-)

[EliRivers]

Good story, but probably not one answering the question.

He said: "I'm trying to find out what can go wrong while hiring​ a developer."

I said: "What went wrong? One person permitted to discount everyone else's opinion and hire a clearly bad candidate anyway, on the grounds of their own personal prejudices."

[rikkus]

[s]he regrets the hiring of the developer. And if they're hired at all and then leave quickly, that's an awful lot of money (even it was all in people's time) wasted.