On top of all of that, it's titled "The Best .. I've Ever Seen" and it's his own anecdote. That's up there with Trump's "I have the best brain." crap. Terrible.
What? First of all, ignoring the semantic argument of whether saying you've "seen" your own anecdote is proper; if you refer to yourself as the best ever for anything you better be world champion class at that thing or you're either a liar or really ignorant.
Based on the anecdote, the author one of the last two.
The script he gave isn't that spectacular, and, if this did actually happen, the CEO was probably impressed that he had rehearsed.
I assume this question is used like the fizz-buzz coding test, although perhaps the CEO didn't know this.