“Dilling was back in his booth in three minutes, chuckling over some private joke. “Just talking on the phone with Lou Flammer, the publicity supervisor. Needs a new stenographer. Lou’s a card. Everybody here is crazy about Lou. Old weekly man himself, and I guess that’s where he learned to be so easy to get along with. Just to feel him out for the hell of it, I told him about you. I didn’t commit you to anything—just said what you told me, that you were keeping your eyes open. And guess what Lou said?”” How professional does the interview David has seem?

Why would a company hire someone based on a brief conversation?