The big problem with this idea is that many will assume, rightly or wrongly, that in spite of someone's success at $COMPANY_X that they still would have been ba

The big problem with this idea is that many will assume, rightly or wrongly, that in spite of someone's success at $COMPANY_X that they still would have been bad for $COMPANY_Y. I am personally of the opinion that a good engineer is a good engineer, and a bad engineer is a bad engineer. Organization and culture can amplify or attenuate the "goodness" or "badness", but cannot make a good engineer bad or vice versa. I also think way too much emphasis is put on culture fit, however it gets defined.