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It's unlikely that they didn't know who he was. Earlier in the thread, someone pointed out he is credited as Additional Testing in World of Warcraft's manual. World of Warcraft released in 2004. That was almost 21 years ago. Mald is 37 (or is it 38 now?) years old. He was 16 or 17 years old at the time. I doubt Blizzard hired people under 18, so this testing must have been arranged via Joeyray, or perhaps he was part of the Friends and Family Alpha of World of Warcraft. I think it's fair to assume whoever signed off on the credits knew about him. So he wasn't entirely unknown to the organization.It wouldn't shock me if they only did the most cursory check for someone they were hiring for a generic QA position.
Though it's hard to estimate how widely it would be known. Post-WoW, Blizzard was much bigger, and I find it completely plausible that a particular manager would have no idea.