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Behavior is the key. It's not about where you're from, gender, ethnicity, or anything like that. It's about how you communicate and your work habits. Yelling i
by jamestomasino 8y ago
Behavior is the key. It's not about where you're from, gender, ethnicity, or anything like that. It's about how you communicate and your work habits.
Yelling insults at each other is a perfect example. In some cultures that works, in others it does not.
- tripletao 8y agoWhere you're from, your gender, and your ethnicity strongly predict how you communicate, your work habits, and everything else about your behavior. Like, the "yelling insults" culture will tend to select for men over women, assuming typical American gender roles. At some point, the disparate impact of selecting for a behavior may select against a protected class by enough that it becomes illegal. You also have potential to get stuck in a local maximum, where you're hiring the best candidates to work with your existing team, but in doing so excluding a huge chunk of the global candidate pool. I agree that team fit is important, but it comes with a lot of asterisks.
- threatofrain 8y agoI'm surprised that someone thinks ethnicity or gender is not relevant to cultural fit. Yes it is. How can one not see that it's far more comfortable to hang out with your own culture, even if a latent part of that was a sparsity of blackness? Does one behave their race or gender away? No.