Today I made a decision I didn't see myself making 5 years ago. I needed to hire a junior business analyst and I interviewed 3 people. 2 women and 1 man. 5 years ago I would've proudly said "regardless of gender I would hire the most qualified person"

Today; I made the decision to hire the man even though he was the least qualified for the position. The women had all the pieces of paper, they dressed nice, they spoke well. The man; he showed up with a suit jacket that didn't fit, he took the bus in the heat so he was a mess etc.

He spent the last 4 years working as a janitor in the evenings and attending school fulltime. He didn't bullshit me about what he knows and what he doesn't. He spoke plainly and humbly. The women; they both recently graduated university with stupid degrees (think art or history etc); they spoke in the most entitled way possible about how they handle conflict and their experience etc. One of my questions is something like "how do you deal with difficult people" the women gave me the answer of "I ask the person to speak privately and express how their comments hurt my feelings and its not appropriate" The man; his answer was "I try to smooth the situation over and just get going with the work. We can deal with any hurt feelings after the work is done"

Ultimately I'd rather train the man on how to do the work than put up with these womens worth ethic and attitude. I'd rather take the man who is cleaning floors for $10/hr while going to school fulltime and raise him up in life to $60k/year than take some entitled woman and pay her that. I know he would be forever grateful for giving him a chance -- the women would stab me in the back at the first chance.

Yes its a meritocracy but as a senior VP level manager I have to be able to work with my team without fearing metoo, hurt feelings and HR problems.

Men here who are responsible for recruitment or have direct reports; have you had this experience recently when interviewing and hiring?