What if you fly this person (who is great on paper) to Wellington, and they turn out to be the most toxic person you've ever met. What if your luck is truly awful and you fly out 100 of these people?
If you find from a group of 100 people, that each one has a personalty that is so "toxic" they are impossible to deal with. I assure you it is you that is "toxic".
We've all met developers that were so lacking in the intangibles that (hindsight being 20/20) they probably we not worth the hire/interview. Imagine that with a couple grand flight tacked on. Don't take a rhetorical question so personally.
I don't see the parent's comment as taking the question personally -- it's just taking it a step further.
Yes, we've all met (or been, at occasion) such people; and yes, it's theoretically possible to interview 100 of such people at the same time. But in reality, the probability of that happening is astronomically lower compared to the probability that the problem was in the interviewer in the first place.
What if you arrange an interview for a person (who is great on paper), and they turn out to be the most toxic person you've ever met. What if your luck is truly awful and you interview 100 of these people?
The costs of this interview are higher but then so is the relative gain of a good hire if they're bleeding talent internationally. The fundamental nature of the gamble is the same.
Then you don't get the benefit you were looking for from this event and then either try again or do something different? I don't get the point of your question.
