It's always good to read about when someone recognizes the process for hiring devs is so broken. Does anyone know of any companies that are both attempting to do something about it, and hiring devs?
My current employer doesn't do technical interviews at all. We might ask about favorite languages, blogs, or open source projects, but generally we're more interested in whether the candidate "feels" like someone who is comfortable coding at the job's level. This has never gone badly for us, and we have never had to fire someone for not being able to do the job.
I posted https://matt.sh/disrupt-tech-interviews a month ago surveying different approaches/tactics people could use to improve interviewing. (spoiler: it requires actual processes and formal methods to improve things.)