I don't agree with recorded video, but I am now convinced that there should always be an random "observer" (interviewer does not get to pick) who does nothing but watch and take notes along with an interviewer.

You can give whatever excuse you want "Adding a new person to the loops," "normalizing the loop level," whatever. But I am now convinced that interviewers cannot be trusted alone with candidates anymore.

Maybe I'm naiive that they ever could be, but if one of my guys did half of the stuff people keep reporting to a candidate and I found out about it, I'd have his head and maybe his badge.

Fsck you very much whichever FAANG HR department decided that "interview loop" was something to be added to corporate evaluations for points and then promulgated it to other companies. Thus making both sides of interviewing even shittier than it was before.