My favorite example of this is Max Levchin in Founders at Work bragging that they didn't hire a great engineering candidate because he said outside of work he l

My favorite example of this is Max Levchin in Founders at Work bragging that they didn't hire a great engineering candidate because he said outside of work he likes to "shoot hoops." According to Levchin it might have been okay to play basketball but saying "hoops" made it immediately clear this guy was a bad culture fit. How can anyone read that and find Levchin's reasoning compelling? He doesn't have any sort of knowledge of casual basketball as a hobby and is making a value judgment on the word choice of the candidate based on Levchin's own inexperience with the hobby culture the candidate lives in. It's basically running up a flag that says if you think someone is remotely different from you don't hire that person. Yet I've heard the opposite from some people, that this is a great move by Levchin. Jessice Livingston included this in her book of advice from founders! This is why there's no diversity in SV.