Hiring the best employees and building a strong culture are imperatives for any company. However, culture fit screens in the interview process have been shown to introduce significant bias. In this post, I dig into what companies actually mean by culture fit, and try to find a way to resolve this conflict. I hope this post will be useful for hiring manager designing an interview process, or engineers getting ready for interviews.

Hiring the best employees and building a strong culture are imperatives for any company. However, culture fit screens in the interview process have been shown to introduce significant bias. In this post, I dig into what companies actually mean by culture fit, and try to find a way to resolve this conflict. I hope this post will be useful for hiring manager designing an interview process, or engineers getting ready for interviews.