> Production immediately came to a screeching halt. However, in under an hour, I discovered that a coworker had polluted an even lower level of the ORM framework with business logic.
"I see. So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Thanks for your time."
I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)
