Isn't the fact that the company is looking for employees an implicit statement that they would find it beneficial to have one? The corollary is that interviews

Isn't the fact that the company is looking for employees an implicit statement that they would find it beneficial to have one? The corollary is that interviews to find employees, being currently The Way Hiring Is Done, must therefore also be of at least some benefit to the company. Whether this benefit outweighs the benefit of having the company's developers in their seats writing code instead of interviewing is at best subject to opinion.