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You've obviously thought a lot about hiring practices. Do you think hiring for "culture fit" is always bad or do you think most companies have a poor interpreta
by EvanKelly 13y ago
You've obviously thought a lot about hiring practices. Do you think hiring for "culture fit" is always bad or do you think most companies have a poor interpretation of what a "culture fit" is?
- michaelochurch 13y agoI think "culture" is a strange word in this sense. Are you talking about whether people drink after hours, or how much autonomy employees have over their project assignments? Some cultural elements are meaningful, some are not, and it's highly subjective. Sometimes, "not a culture fit" means "arrogant asshole". Sometimes, it means "not 23, privileged, white and male". The cultural things I care about, personally, are the ones that affect how I work. I'm a huge fan of open allocation, as you might know from my other posts. I don't care much about making friends. I'll make a couple, if I'm lucky, and that will happen naturally; but I go to work to work, not to be "cool" or find drinking buddies. Also, the chummy culture of the VC-darling hot startups is really superficial. These people act like they have deep friendships because it fills a void and makes the 90-hour weeks bearable, but as soon as a person leaves, he's spoken-of as if he were hanged unto death for some unspeakable crime. Just shows how much real friendship there is in the VC-funded world.