This sort of question reminds me of the now-discredited “cultural fit” question in standard interview rounds. In almost all situations, it meant “are you of th

This sort of question reminds me of the now-discredited “cultural fit” question in standard interview rounds. In almost all situations, it meant “are you of the same socioeconomic background as the interviewer?”, so it ended up being incredibly racist and also ensured that teams had very little technical diversity. It did optimize for fun nights out with cliques within the teams (and epic political infighting) though.