Comment by pipeline_peak

I hate to break it to you, but saying your favorite language is Scheme would get A LOT of interviewers to laugh, especially in the enterprise world where Java and C# are dominant. These aren't usually Hacker News browsing people, and if they have any association with Lisp, it's through a college course, rarely independent interest.

Are you sure he didn't just walk out because he had other things to do and knew the others could take over?