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Culture obsession is a little silly. If you hire smart individuals then the culture will work itself out as will pretty much everything else. Plus, whenever any
by dkarapetyan 13y ago
Culture obsession is a little silly. If you hire smart individuals then the culture will work itself out as will pretty much everything else. Plus, whenever anyone mentions culture they either can't define it or it ends up being the definition of the hive mind, i.e. it is all around you and within you but you can't really know what it is until you are part of it. In other words I have learned literally zero things from this post other than Peter Thiel invested in Airbnb and told them to not fuck things up. Which I guess you can do when you give someone $150 million.
- sockgrant 13y ago> If you hire smart individuals then the culture will work itself out as will pretty much everything else Culture is about people getting along, being motivated towards the same goals, and working in the type of environment that they enjoy. Not all smart individuals have the same culture desires. Google is the posterboy for culture discussions, and they are very open and blunt about denying some extremely smart interviewees. They very carefully prune for cultural fit, and it has a large impact. Google's culture is a multiplying factor on the productivity. A bad culture fit for an employee or employer is an < 1 multiplier to productivity.