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There are differences in people-group cultures - trivial examples being music genres, manner of speaking, how loud parties get, etc. Substantive group culture
by steve_g 6y ago
There are differences in people-group cultures - trivial examples being music genres, manner of speaking, how loud parties get, etc. Substantive group culture differences might include how much education is valued. All this being on average, taken as a group.
But group cultural distinctives/values are very different from corporate culture. Corporate culture goes to how decisions are made, forgiveness vs. permission, what behavior is rewarded, etc. I don't think you can get that from a job interview. I don't believe you can interview for "corporate culture fit" and I don't think it correlates to people-group.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI'm pretty confident it's correlated. One issue I have personal experience with is what's called "cooperative overlapping". In most corporate cultures, you're expected to nod along to what people say and reply only when they're finished talking. But in many people-group cultures, including my native one, talking over people is a neutral to positive thing showing your engagement with a conversation. (In fact, failing to interject can be negative in some contexts, signaling that you don't care at all what they have to say and you're just waiting for the babbling to stop.) I've learned to adapt to the degree that I'm seen as impatient rather than simply rude, but it requires substantial effort, and I'll probably never be able to do it as well as people who grew up with this style of conversation.