Interesting article and its small sampling echoes what I’ve long preached – keep HR and recruiters out of the hiring process.
The claim that HR/recruiters are the only ones that have “pipeline management” (translation: multitasking), “offer negotiation” (translation: requirements validation; this is farce as HR/recruiters work for the company and not the candidate, thus they all have a take-it-or-leave-it approach), and “brand recognition” skills are completely false. If HR/recruiters were such experts on brand recognition then there would have been responses to the limited sampling.
There's no point to doing 2, 3, or even 4 interviews for a job that potentially pays less.
Employers should learn that lesson.