Fair point. I guess the ideal for getting actual "culture fit" would be for the good applications to somehow reach the team needing the new hire without being filtered for "culture" by a completely unrelated team elsewhere in the company. Come to think of it, I believe that's what an in-house referral is...
Hopefully someone becomes rich for solving that problem without needing a friend of a friend to get your foot in the door.
From GP: >The recruiting team was all women
I guess this is what you get when you outsource hiring.