I agree with you. But the &quot;question&quot; of the parent post was &quot;I have no idea why this doesn&#x27;t happen more often, it&#x27;s not difficult to do in any reasonably sized company&quot;, and I was just trying to give a possible answer. While it&#x27;s really not a good indicator, there&#x27;ll eventually be some correlation.<p>Bottom line is: I&#x27;d totally understand a manager not accepting a guy that failed elsewhere in the same company; he would possibly be wrong in doing so, but - really - what would you do? I&#x27;d eventually try to interview the guy but, in the end, if I got two &quot;final&quot; candidates and one of them already failed in the company, I&#x27;d go for the other.