I suspect a large part of the problem is a lack of experienced engineers with the capacity to do interviews. As someone who often gets stuck with them, I can at

I suspect a large part of the problem is a lack of experienced engineers with the capacity to do interviews. As someone who often gets stuck with them, I can attest to how draining they can be, especially if you're doing them correctly. The problem is that it's _these_ engineers we need running the interview because they can pretty quickly pick out a fraudulent candidate from an exceptional one while giving both the option to use AI. I generally only need about 30 minutes to confidently assess whether someone is worth pushing further in the process. But while HR would love to make me a full-time interviewer, it rarely makes business sense. So we end up with unqualified people using what they were told are good signals for hiring talent.