It's really easy to read this as "shitty interviewer runs off good candidate".
It's also easy to read this as "interviewer hand-held a candidate through a problem".
It's also easy to read this as "interviewer hand-held a candidate through a problem".
There's nothing in there about the candidate.
Anyway, I don't think this is the kind of attention the author would want. Nobody even talked about the search engine yet.