When there are hundreds of applicants for 1 role of which the top 10 are all equally qualified, no interview process will seem fair.

So how do we break the tie?

Whiteboard? No whiteboard? Pair programming?

If we accept that after a certain point the process is random, why not simply break ties with first come first serve?

In the final few rounds, is a candidate who can solve the exotic DP problem just because he's seen it before really any better than the others?