> Small and medium companies pick the crumbs of those rituals and fall into cargo culting. They want to reap the same promised benefits of the obscure interview rituals. Yet they miss the reasons behind these rituals and do not fully understand what trained interviewers exactly seek.

Just my opinion, but I think this line comes across as a little too condescending or perhaps paternalistic. I work at a small (40-50 ppl) unknown to you company and all of us (so far) are senior in our fields and largely have FAMGAN experience on our CVs. We’re not just cargo culting, but rather taking things from the FAMGAN hiring processes that make sense and using them.