I worked in the IT arm of a household name US non-IT company (just to provide basic context). Eventually we determined that interviewing just wasn't that helpf

I worked in the IT arm of a household name US non-IT company (just to provide basic context). Eventually we determined that interviewing just wasn't that helpful. We started telling the recruiting company, "Send me the best you've got that's available by Tuesday." Now certainly the recruiter is going to do some selection biasing there, but we found we had just as much success as our previous interviewing process that had a phone interview, face to face interview, and a test.