>My issue with the statement is that it's completely ignoring the cost of friction in the interview pipeline.

Firstly, his company, his "cost of friction" to bear. If this cost negatively affects his business then his company will go out of business and the free market will have claimed another victim. Who am I to judge how a man decides to run his own business and interview candidates? I would also like to run my business the way I see fit and not how strangers on the internet want me to.

Secondly, I never said I agree with it, I don't , I just said I appreciate him telling the truth and being transparent about the way he runs his business even though he knew it wouldn't win him any popular votes.