A friend was regaling me over drinks that he wanted to cancel an interview with a candidate who had made it past the phone screen but upon his (not HR’s) googlingof the guy found several red flags. HR freaked out telling him he wasn’t authorized to be looking at candidates like that (outside of LinkedIn - since we all know how accurate that is) so he had to bring the guy in, interview him and fortunately had enough valid technical reasons to pass on him.
There be some weird reasoning going on out there.
