To be honest, I think there is a lot more to this and he's reading a lot into single question. He's had around a month to work at this company and it's obvious that something about him hasn't gelled with the employer. He must have done something to piss someone off a lot as passing probation is normally a simple tick box exercise; are you competent enough for the job? Yes good. Are you an arsehole? No? Good, you're in.
Secondly, no matter how good he was (is?) in his degree, it's not that important at that level of the company (especially for larger companies). In the UK, graduates/interns are a dime a dozen and even good graduates are pretty easy to find. If they don't like you or find you're not a good fit with the team then it won't matter how skilled you are or how high your grades are. Skilled graduates are easy to find and for every grad job, there will be hundreds of potential applicants just as skilled if not more skilled than your friend. Just to make things worse, there are also likely a few people that are more qualified for the post who they could equally hire. So at this level, his impressive skills mean fuck all if he won't play ball.
As for the question itself, he didn't actually answer it, and if he gave similar non-answers to other questions then it probably didn't work in his favour (even if he thinks they did). Questions like this at larger corporations are often an exercise in tick boxes and if he doesn't say things in the right way, he's out. The simple answer is to swallow his pride, say it's important and stress how diversity leads to new innovations. He gets a tick by his name for teamwork and gets the experience he needs to get the next job.
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