On the individual level this seems absurd. It won't be read before contacting someone new. It will however annoy some people to have specified some arbitrary pr

On the individual level this seems absurd. It won't be read before contacting someone new. It will however annoy some people to have specified some arbitrary preferences and then have them routinely ignored by everyone. Something along these lines is a good idea for a job listing though. Come up with a broad sketch of how the current team works and likes to work, have the team edit it until rough consensus, add it to the job listing. The best I've seen in that direction is https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/overview/blob/master/hiring.md https://github.com/symmetryinvestments/overview/blob/master/... > Qualities and traits we value Usually this is something vague around inclusivity and niceness. I can't remember the stated corporate qualities of anywhere I've worked, though the reality tends to stick in the mind. Symmetry have not taken that stance. The examples I find most interesting from that section are > Practical people who are at the same time unreasonable when they ought to be > Extreme and unusual intellectual capabilities > Good taste and love of beauty It's not enough to tell me whether I'd like to work there or not - in particular trading firms are usually obsessed with people sitting in office blocks - but it's higher signal than the usual waffle about everyone working together nicely to make things nice.