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> There are going to be some people who read this and assume she must have interviewed poorly, or have really bad grades or something.

There's a paragraph in there dedicated to just that; in that case, the HR person that handled her application was fired / quit and the whole application apparently went down the shitter.

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“Aish, after much discussion, we realised we really want you in the team. But the HR who was handling your papers had to quit and therefore we will no longer be pursuing your application. I am very sorry that we have taken so long to respond”.

This is the freaking CEO talking. Here's my translation:

"Aish, we want you, but we can't have you because someone quit, and we're too incompetent to follow up."

I suspect even worse: the HR person kept asking why this woman wasn't being hired and preference to was being given to a German male candidate, and was therefore removed or driven out.

(although it can't be trivial to fire people in Germany?)

Yep. Sounds like that company did her a huge favor in hind sight for not hiring her. If that is how HR is handled, cannot imagine the rest of that operation being much better.

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