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"Cultural fit" means something like "shares our values". That's something like: conservative compliance vs. going right to the edge of the law meticulous desi
by tripletao 8y ago
"Cultural fit" means something like "shares our values". That's something like:
conservative compliance vs. going right to the edge of the law
meticulous design and testing vs. move fast and break things
command-and-control vs. self-organization
IM vs. voice calls
9-5 vs. flexible hours blurring work and non-work time
likes the same kind of music as me vs. doesn't
Some of those seem okay to me to consider, and others don't. I don't see a bright line. I'd tend to agree that "cultural fit" with no further explanation tends to mean something bad.
- rossdavidh 8y agoI especially like that most of the things on your list are not ones where there is a "right answer" for all organizations. Some organizations _should_ move fast and break things, others must not. Having worked at Fortune 500 companies running factories with many toxic chemicals that need to be tightly controlled, and travel magazines, and university accounting IT, and startups, and consultancies making websites for restaurant chains, I can tell you from personal experience that the "right answer" for many of these things is different. Most people can work well in some of them, and not in others.