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The idea that culture fit is just a catch-all for personal bias and -ism's recently occurred to me, and kind of freaks me out. Right now I think there are three
by JackMorgan 13y ago
The idea that culture fit is just a catch-all for personal bias and -ism's recently occurred to me, and kind of freaks me out. Right now I think there are three things I'm most looking for in a quality Sr candidate: restless learning, pair programs well with my team (we do it on all production code), and focuses on solutions not problems. I'm afraid though that "culture fit", especially around pair programming is just a way for me to cop out on someone I don't like, but I can't prove it.
- derwiki 13y agoIt's a slippery slope if you ask me. If you don't like them, you might not be able to work well with them. What's more unfair -- adding someone to the team who will cause problems because they're qualified -or- rejecting someone who is qualified because your 45 minute evaluation is, "they're not a good fit"? I don't know the answer. But I do know that it's a lot harder to fire a bad fit than to never hire them to begin with. I expect this to bite me as ageism in ten years, when a 23 y/o Stanford grad will be aghast that I don't spend my evenings playing with MeteorRails.js.