Personally I would pick nene 100%. I hate quick and dirty coders that increase the workload of their coworkers.
I basically had the exact situation at work, there was this new guy that was reconverting from another job. He made mistakes since he didn't know crap in programming yet but always listened and tried to understand. They refused it the post and took this other guy that never speak with the rest of us, don't really want to learn our team way of coding, and never test shit,
I complained to my boss and it was like "he have skill that all I care about ".
5month after this guy told us he is quitting and I laugh alone at my boss bad call :)