Tag: interview-prep
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Hiring for Culture Fit in Tech: Science vs Gut Feeling
“Culture fit” sounds principled. In most European tech hiring processes I’ve observed over the past decade, it functions as something narrower: a mechanism for managing interpersonal risk. That’s not how it’s framed. But it’s how it behaves. What the Research Actually Says Google’s Project Aristotle, which analysed more than 180 internal teams, concluded that psychological…
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Tech Interview Prep: What European Companies Actually Test
Most candidates assume interviews measure competence. In most European companies, they measure exposure — exposure to risk, exposure to cost, exposure to unpredictability. After eighteen years in IT — twelve inside Tier-1 manufacturing IT and six in digital agencies — I stopped treating interviews as talent discovery. They are risk compression exercises. The question behind…