Cultural fit is a thinly veiled excuse to not hire perfectly qualified people usually because of some (usually illegal) prejudice that can't be expressed anothe

Cultural fit is a thinly veiled excuse to not hire perfectly qualified people usually because of some (usually illegal) prejudice that can't be expressed another way. It's a way to skirt the law and a simple reason to turn down applicants that can't be questioned. It also seems to refer to expected traits of not only applicants but current employees that cannot be mandated by contract explicitly. I have seen it argued that not working weekends went against the culture of a company and therefore there was a bad cultural fit. What a load of B.S. It seems these cultural values into which one must fit are always negative ones from the point of view of the employee. Free work. Limited, narrow thinking. Even pleasing and worshipping the boss. I have heard of very few companies that value vacation as their cultural values and would turn away people who overwork themselves into burnout. Either way, it's something toxic that companies would be much better without.