Ask HN: Is this messed up or am I being a pussy? Work rant.

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We're looking for a VP Engineering candidate to come in and take some duties of our current VP so he can focus on the architecture and systems stuff instead of team building and politics. This is fine, I think we're all in agreement with this. Now to "spare" us mass interviews they've been interviewing candidates for a while now and about 6 weeks ago they brought one in they really liked for the team to meet him. We sat with him for an hour each and chatting about his history, what he wants to do etc and that was it. The three people that met with him(our of the four in the department) gave him a thumbs-down. Fast forward to yesterday and they've announced they've hired him.

4 person department, three people met with the guy for an hour and all said he's not a good fit and they hired him without asking or telling the department. Is this messed up or am I being a pussy? It's a <25 person company and we(the department) have been there for two years.