Maybe they were still stuck on Java 1.3 or something traumatising like that.

Whatever it is, I'm guessing the codebase and project management style is not perfect.

Why the tech industry of course! And it was a web dev position.

And a specific test of mental stability at interview... yes, this is unusual.

I thought those tests were not required until someone hired a sociopath who was clueless about coding, but immediately started fights with everyone. We got very selective after that one got in. But then someone hired a socipath manager who started fights, sex harassment baiting, demanded devs were fired on the whim without justification. I had to block that person on all comm channels.

It might have been a conspiracy to commit murder and they did it together.

Basically two criminals, one crime.