Great article and I can just agree.

I'm on the side of hiring engineers currently, but of course was many times on the other side as well.

I also stopped a long time ago to do any coding tests. I'm honestly also not very good at them actually (so many years after finishing study) and it's a waste of time to refresh them on LeetCode or similar just to pass an interview. If you want work for the big three then you have to do some sort of work but otherwise I would also suggest just walking to the next job offer.

What I personally do instead is to let the candidate send me a link (git if possible) to a previous project, a side project, open source project or whatever he's proud of.

That's then the entry point to start some discussions in all directions and you get a solid sense of the know-how, decision skills, tool/language knowledge, conceptual knowledge, creativity and much more. I've had far more success finding the right people in the team with that approach.