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> In an 8 week period over summer, the candidate learned ios programming, identified a problem that was impacting customers, proposed a fix, and was able to release the fix to customers. When he demonstrated the issue and his fix to the engineering team, it was clear that he had spent long hours working with the app.

This is actually faint praise that this was the right decision. Finding and fixing a bug (there is no mention of how tricky or complicated it was) is often the warm up project for an internship to get them familiar with the code base before doing something more ambitious.

The fact that the presentation demonstrated “spent long hours working with the app” and not some particular insight or ability is also telling.

As others have mentioned this whole story smells of nepotism.