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Good old referral based hiring should be more common now.
As someone doing the hiring, referral hires fucking suck. I want the best candidate, not the most connected candidate, and I don't want to have to deal with the bullshit company politics when the referral hire doesn't work out.
My company actually pushes referrals and even offers a bonus for a successful hire to whoever recommended them, but the candidate still has to pass a bunch of interview hurdles, so it's rare that it all works out anyway.
I think referrals can work out, if your interview process is grueling to begin with.