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If they really want you, they do all they can to get you on board even if you are failing/aren't motivated to do their entrance interviews and what I mentioned are two such criteria they use to bypass their process for very senior hires. They would literally give you $3M signing bonus in extreme cases or acquihire your team/company if you still didn't want to move.

They probably didn't want Brew author that much; we don't know the details.