it's ironic if you mess up the interview process of the person you are trying to hire to get better at hiring. Fortunately, Maria saw that as an opportunity and is now in charge of hiring at KNIME! You can keep ignoring inbound recruiter requests - but if Maria reaches out to you, you’d better reply! Plus, she is the first one who discovered the KNIME secret on day #1 of the onboarding with just one sharp question (Jim took years...)