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by ThrustVectoring 3557 days ago
It's a mixed bag. Not hiring good engineers will, ceteris paribus, give bad engineers more chances to luck through your interview process.

IMO, the key thing is that interviews are designed to give political cover for the interviewers to make the hire. If and when bad hires happen, the interviewer can say that their process was technically challenging, even if it did end up rejecting someone like Brendan Eich and passing someone who put 200 hours into Cracking the Coding Interview.