Devils Advocate
I do not wish to debase this fine thread by responding to your post above in the manner it deserves. So, with considerable restraint, I say:
1. Yes, I would “probe” the applicant fully. But I would have done in any event;
2. Provided I was the assessor (and not merely an uninvolved, and therefore out of the information loop, bystander), I would indeed inform the “abysmally failed” sim pilot’s employer and/or the CAA. But I would do so only after I had informed the pilot of my view as to his/her performance, allowed him/her an opportunity to respond, perhaps mitigate, as to that performance, and then only after I informed the pilot that I intended to advise the employer/CAA. No gossip involved there, do you see?;
3. Yes, a 'proper' recruitment process should cover all the angles;
4. Where I work and in what capacity is none of your business (unless you work with me, and I assure you that you do not); and
5. There are two, as you quite rightly display.