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Re:Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just cove... by pytester on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:11PM (#20706483)
"Not the right culture fit" is pretty much code for "we have reasons we'd like to reject the candidate which we don't want to go into too much detail about".

The vaguer the reason for rejection the more suspicious I tend to be that it's at least implicitly related to some sort of shameful prejudice.

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Re:Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just cove... by erik_seaberg on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:16PM (#20706550)
Dinging a candidate on culture fit is very rare for me, and basically means "I think some people would quit to avoid working with this guy."
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Re:Anyone else thinks that Whiteboard interview is just cove... by pytester on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:32PM (#20706749)
IME when a candidate gets dinged for a reason that would make people quit to avoid working with him (e.g. "he obviously doesn't shower") then people don't tend to invoke the words "culture fit".
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