Your experience (and others like it) is the reason Airbnb decided to redo recruiting from the ground up. Almost the entire recruiting team has been hired in the last 2.5 years. Clearly it needed to happen.
I have been looking for jobs recently, and while nowhere near as extreme a scenario as that case, a lot of companies expect me to speak with the HR person for 20 minutes on skype, followed by a timed online coding test, despite knowing nothing about the job. You can ask the HR person, but usually they know next to nothing.
Timed coding tests are stupid. That's not how I work on a day to day basis. "Weeks of coding can save hours of planning" is something I believe, and that planning is where my 12 years of experience in the industry makes a difference.