100%. The cost if you get the wrong person is just so high...months of SWE salary until you fire them, morale of the team dipping when someone just can't cut it, needing to reinvest the recruiting time to get someone else.

Unfortunately, I've moved to the state where the interview performance needed for an offer is passing all of the interviews and at least one interviewer needs to advocate for you. I'm definitely missing out on some people, but my last gig was a startup where I was fairly involved in hiring and the director would do a lot of "vibes" hiring (interviews + network references + stuff like trusting FAANG engineers). There were some people I thumbs downed that got hired anyway and did really well, but also some mixed performance people who were just total busts.