[pacman128]

The most infamous hire I was involved in was a guy with a long resume who had an ok technical interview on phone with me. I didn't ask him any real technical questions on the on-site visit (big mistake!). We hired him and literally knew we had made a big mistake hours into his first day. He couldn't do the simplest things (e.g., he didn't seem to grasp the difference between relative and absolute file paths, didn't know what ping was). I still don't know how he gamed the phone interview. The worst part is that management hired him as a senior developer. I could have told them he wasn't at that level, but they just looked at his years of experience on his resume. He really pissed off the junior developers as he bugged them for help on his projects.