I wouldn't hire him. It's not like he _programmed_ his way in. And he didn't just post tweets saying "Twitter's security is bad." He actively tried to scam people. So he wasn't trying to accomplish anything good.
Programming is a waste of time if you don’t need a program.
True, but what tech company would benefit from the social engineering skills of a young man with dubious morality? If at least he had proven to be the new Mitnick, but he hasn't.
It may make sense if you consider it more as a marketing hire. Such a person at least has potential for future interviews and talks one could leverage for increasing company visibility.
He's being charged with 30 felonies but at the same time exposed how woefully inadequate Twitter is at securing the accounts of high-profile people, some of which with control of apocalyptic weapons. I predict he'll plea out to doing a few years of free work for the government.
You might like the Darknet Diaries podcast (if you don't already subscribe).
Often interviews reformed "hackers" who have turned their lives around.
Unless he's ordered to stay away from computers for that time.
And then he'll join up with Acid Burn to take down some skateboarding CEO...