We used many of the techniques described here at my former employer and they worked quite well. I recently changed jobs and although the "dig into the candidate

We used many of the techniques described here at my former employer and they worked quite well. I recently changed jobs and although the "dig into the candidate's experience" was used often, the code review and the design collaboration weren't used much. One employer had a Codility test which they were then going to follow up with a psychometric screening that I didn't do because I accepted another offer. I spent 8+ hours creating a sample app for another firm. In another case I had a take home challenge that took 4-6 hours followed by a phone screen that included a live coding exercise...all before the onsite of course. The opportunity I accepted was actually closest to this...it was heavy on conversation and discussion, featured a design exercise, and had no live or offline code test. Long story short, the approaches were all over the map and while I did very respectably on all of them and passed on to the next stage in every case, I definitely felt like the approach described in the video and that I'd used successfully at my former employer was superior. We never hired someone and later regretted it. We were always able to get a reasonable sense of their knowledge and skill from the techniques described here.