The sad thing is, while HR bureaucrats and psycobabble numpties run recruiting for most airlines these things will continue to happen.
Despite their degrees they can't spot obvious falsities like have been mentioned here. As long as they pass their mindless tests so they put the candidate in a pigeon hole and they say all the politically correct stuff to keep the HR empire happy they're 90% of the way through the process.
Pilots, sadly, have less and less say on who gets employed these days. That's why these guys get employed.