<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>umvi</author><text>This has happened twice to my dad.&lt;p&gt;The first time was in 1994 when he applied for an Air Force position in Italy. The role required a max 3 out of 3 score on the DoD Italian proficiency test and some other niche requirements, all of which my dad fulfilled. The Air Force selected my dad for the position since the only other candidate that applied was the person currently holding the position. Then there was a big debacle because the commander over that position actually wanted the extend the guy currently holding the position a few years and decided crafting a niche job spec that seemingly only he could fill was the best way. There was a bunch of back-pedaling and politics and the job position was redacted in order for the commander to keep his guy from being replaced by my dad.&lt;p&gt;The second time was similar, but at a public university. A super niche job opening for their history department was published on their site that required experience with american military history, and a few other things my dad was uniquely qualified for. He applied, and the job posting was shortly taken down and my dad got a response like &amp;quot;actually we&amp;#x27;ve decided to move a different direction from when we originally posted that job listing. That listing has been removed and we are no longer accepting applications for it&amp;quot;. Seemed like another instance where the candidate to-be-hired was pre-determined, but my dad threw a wrench into their plans by applying to a job posting that was only supposed to have 1 candidate (the predetermined hire).</text><parent_chain><item><author>edko</author><text>Some companies even do this for job applications. A manager has a person they want for a role but, because of policy, they must publish it on their employment website, and go through the charade of interviewing candidates, wasting everybody&amp;#x27;s time. In the end, their preferred candidate wins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your competitor wrote the RFP you&apos;re bidding on</title><url>https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/your-competitor-wrote-the-rfp-you-are-bidding-on</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brightball</author><text>I applied for a job that a friend of mine was up for simply because they couldn&amp;#x27;t complete the job search until they had enough candidates. I went through the interview process to speed things up for him. Got interviewed by 9 people when we all knew what the outcome was supposed to be.&lt;p&gt;I spent most of the time talking about how great he was at his job just to move it along faster.</text><parent_chain><item><author>edko</author><text>Some companies even do this for job applications. A manager has a person they want for a role but, because of policy, they must publish it on their employment website, and go through the charade of interviewing candidates, wasting everybody&amp;#x27;s time. In the end, their preferred candidate wins.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Your competitor wrote the RFP you&apos;re bidding on</title><url>https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/your-competitor-wrote-the-rfp-you-are-bidding-on</url></story>