Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview

Re:Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask duri... by uu892 on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:34PM (#15915763)

Some of these questions strike me as bizzare. Do I live in a bubble? Do people actually care if their workplace has good beer, or whether everyone eats together? And how can "Bonded by Love for Product" mean anything but drinking the corporate koolaid?

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Re:Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask duri... by ccmonnett on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:24PM (#15916757)

I work for a company that makes tools for B2B tech support. It helps to work with people that give a darn about support (really helps if they've done it themselves) to know that we're on the same page about helping our customers & users.

This is in opposition to someone (who may otherwise be a fine employee) who just wants to build React UIs, or a streaming ML backend, or whatever, and is agnostic about what they ultimately work toward.

Organizations with both types of people can work well (and a mix is probably healthy). Personally I prefer having confidence in the idea that the people with whom I work have customer pain points top-of-mind rather than the most kick-ass Spark/Cassandra/etc. cluster out there.

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