I think that hiring for culture fit is not the hardest thing to do - it's no different from hiring for technical skills. It just requires that you have some bac

I think that hiring for culture fit is not the hardest thing to do - it's no different from hiring for technical skills. It just requires that you have some background in psychology so that you can easily spot someone who is lying. Of course, it doesn't mean that you need to have a master degree in psychology. You can learn, and here experience and gut feelings play a very important role, although as someone has said, there are interesting questions you can ask to tell the Rockstar from the team player. So yes, you can use normal questions plus gut feelings. For me more important than hiring the right people is how to retain the good ones and prevent assholes to prevail and destroy the nice atmosphere at work. Prevention is nothing if you don't act when the problem occurs. And eventually it will. I can't believe that companies like Amazon or Google with > 100000 employees only hire great people culturally fit. We are animals, and when put together there is always someone that wants to prevail. And there is always the culturally unfit that somehow sneaks in. The difference is how you tackle that. I have seen and been in companies where the action was literally doing nothing. You have to change to behave in a different way towards the asshole, in order to make your life easier. That's the answer. Lots of "Let's hire for good fit", but no "how to deal with aholes at work that disrupt your work environment". Ps. People should read the "no as*hole rule" book. A first good resource on how to deal with such people.