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Yet I see company after company after company filled with people who dress the same, act the same, think the same. I genuinely believe that you believe everyth
by EliRivers 11y ago
Yet I see company after company after company filled with people who dress the same, act the same, think the same.
I genuinely believe that you believe everything you say. That you think you're objective, and really very fair indeed, and that deep down, you believe you're probably actually more objective and more fair than average.
But when I look around, I see company after company after company that hires people just like them. It's impossible to tell what someone's working style is from an interview. Impossible to tell even from one of those hip auditons that the kids like these days, asking someone to take a day's holiday and waste their time in a potential employers office. It's impossible. So people tell themselves "cultural fit", just like you do, and they hire someone who looks like them, dresses like them, thinks like them.
That person almost certainly does have a compatible working style, because that person is the same as the other employees, so now you can pat yourself on the back and tell yourself you had some good intuition there about working styles, and that applicant with the accent who has a very different background probably never would have worked out.
You're right, it's nothing to do with diversity. That's just something that doesn't happen when you hire for "cultural fit".
Don't waste your time reasoning with me, I have you on the one hand, and on the other hand company after company after company of homogenised employees. Who am I going to believe? You, or the evidence?
- mattbee 11y agoWe explicitly washed our hands of "cultural fit" on our careers site, which took a bit of persuasion on our board - https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/process https://careers.bytemark.co.uk/process We need 1) skilled people who can 2) learn and 3) work in a team. That's it, and that's one of several reasons we're interviewing anonymously, through IM - no names or CVs.