They had 24 applicants and they ran the process seemingly fully on excel and technocratic HR and email. If these decisions were only involving human subject matter experts this would not have happened. Imagine you need someone, define criteria, get two dozens CVs and then HR tells you nope: they are all no-go. Most would say WTF or go ballistic. But if HR is in the driving seat alone and makes final decisions alone without human contact - anything goes.

Thankfully it will be all getting better when we delegate that to A.I..