I once got hired with a "just grab a coffee and discuss how we can work together" interview. It seemed great; I knew they were making a solid hire (because I'm

I once got hired with a "just grab a coffee and discuss how we can work together" interview. It seemed great; I knew they were making a solid hire (because I'm awesome) and I got to dodge the pain of the gauntlet of technical interviews. Win-win, right? Then they continued to use this process to hire the rest of the team, which turned out to be at least 75% incompetent. I no longer think it was great.