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The problem with the current system is that people with good haggling skills (for example, former used car salesmen) have an unfair advantage against people with less haggling and more technical skills.
Isn't that part of a generalized problem where hiring processes test how well people do at hiring processes rather than how well they do at the job?
It is, but I think there's a useful distinction between hiring-process skills that are related to job skills but not the same (e.g., mathsy problem-solving or programming language trivia, when interviewing for a programming job) and ones that have basically nothing to do with job performance (e.g., how good you are at selling yourself, when interviewing for a programming job).
Measuring the first sort of skill is to some extent a necessary evil. No feasible hiring process is ever going to measure exactly the right things. (Though one can adjust the quantity of evil a bit; e.g., programming language trivia questions are a rotten guide to performance for most programming jobs.)
Measuring the second sort seems more fundamentally unwise.