[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, I hadn’t heard that. For any job at Apple, the battery of interviews is long and very intense. How’d that guy slip past the hiring process?

[Swordmaker]

Wow, I hadn’t heard that. For any job at Apple, the battery of interviews is long and very intense. How’d that guy slip past the hiring process?

He was Tim Cook's first hire as CEO after Steve Jobs' death. It was a mistake. He'd made a huge turn around at a British chain, but after a few months it became obvious his methods were not Apple's. It also seemed under later reporting that the success in Britain was more the work of an assistant.