Its not a "bad" idea, its just a worthless idea. The scenario you describe is a theoretical shortcut to attempt to hire those with basic flying instincts, which most pilots have anyway, including those that don't do well flying a new aircraft for the first time ever. Yet the instant the gouge gets out there, everyone knows it, sees it coming and practices it. Airlines need to incorporate that into their training programs, heavens forbid if it adds a couple sim periods in these days of cost cutting by any means necessary.

DL has had exceptional success with non sim interviews. If sim interviews are really a clear and significant advantage, it should be easy to prove it. Yet airlines at every level have sim interviews or not, with no discernible difference.