There's no way to pick the culture you work in before you start working. First, job opportunities are basically random. Everyone just interviews at random pla

There's no way to pick the culture you work in before you start working. First, job opportunities are basically random. Everyone just interviews at random places until one randomly hires you. The secret is to continue job hunting after you've started, don't sign anything, and be prepared to walk if the culture turns out not to be something you can tolerate. And I say tolerate, because there will never be a 'good' culture. It's a job and your exit strategy is to not work any more. People are going to say their company is different, it's awesome, but they don't even know what makes it such a horrible environment. For instance, any culture that has a strong affiliation with kids stuff sucks to me: scooters, bikes, slides, candy, games, nerf, etc. It really says that they see adult employees as introverted children who are stupid enough to do real work so they must like candy and scooters. Other people like this kind of stuff, but that same company is going to have something else seriously wrong with it that they won't like. Just pick some place you can tolerate until you save up enough cash to escape wage slavery.