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>> you're searching for people with passion so you can get them to work unpaid overtime for you I think companies are also expecting that 'people with passion'

>> you're searching for people with passion so you can get them to work unpaid overtime for you I think companies are also expecting that 'people with passion' will be less impacted by the unavoidable organizational BS and garbage that pops up on occasion. In my experience, the people with the greatest passion also turn out to be the biggest assholes and unnecessarily alienate their coworkers. Going with the carpentry example, imagine building a house with someone that insisted _everything_ be _perfectly_level_ and went around checking everyone's work every hour and reviewing their work. Culture fit could more effectively be restated as emotional/social intelligence which a small subset of software engineers severely lack. Hiring an excellent engineer that doesn't enable other team members is a net loss for the organization.

FundThrowaway 9y ago
"'people with passion' will be less impacted by the unavoidable organizational BS" Funnily enough I always find it that the people with passion are the ones that get themselves all worked up and distracted with the BS, the rest just keep on chugging (assuming it's not so bad that they quit).
ken 9y ago
> I think companies are also expecting that 'people with passion' will be less impacted by the unavoidable organizational BS and garbage that pops up on occasion. Perhaps so. (Wanting people to regularly work unpaid overtime could be seen as an instance of "organizational BS".) In this case, it's a good signal to applicants like me that I wouldn't want to work there. Unfortunately, it's become universal across the software industry.