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But, how are you qualified to make that determination (as in whether a person is decent enough to work with)? Isn't it likely that you either get a skewed impression of this from an interview or that you are biased yourself? The person you reject for lacking decency could be your interviewer in another situation, and reject you for the same reason.

* not trying to imply that there is no objective way to define/measure decency

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There's no objective measure of decency. I'm qualified to offer my subjective input while evaluating the candidate because I'll be on the team that has to work with them.

And frankly, I'll happily take the L if the candidate rejects me as the interviewer at another position. I have no right to assert that I'm the best possible candidate for their role because the job at hand isn't strictly about quantitatively measured qualifications. Though, if I rejected a candidate for being unpleasant, chances are I'll withdraw my application upon seeing they're and interviewer. Why would I change my mind about working with that person?

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