150% skill fit, 0% culture fit.
Do you make the hire? #asknostr
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Good for a remote worker. Tough for an in person hire.
Traditionally organizations would have a dungeon office for people like that where they could work their position without bothering anyone else 🙂
But ya, could totally work with remote work..
Someone else asked a good question. How often is this person reporting to the team and how many people do they have to interact with?
Classic 'it depends' I-O moment.
If it's a hyper specialized task where they report to one person that could be awesome. If it's an event coordinator or project manager it may not vibe.
Nope, vibe with your tribe.
Sure there’s exceptions especially with remote work, but this is what I lean towards.
Difficult call without further context, but overall, while hard/technical skills can be taught with practice and training, attitude values and principles come from within and are much harder to instill.
I'd say culture fit is crucial because it impacts teamwork and long-term success.
Tough call. Is the person working with others daily? If you just need the person to do his/her tasks extremely well then make the hire. Sometimes it’s hard to find great talent. I would personally want someone who fits the culture of the company at more than 0%. But it wouldn’t outweigh skills.
Hypothetical question. Definitely plenty of exceptions. 150% skill fit is like finding a needle in the haystack
Nah.
expand the culture.
nope, what you get is a decaying culture and overall underperformance
I like this yes no kinda take. Thanks
i’ve tried that a few times, always betting on the person (because of the skills…), but it ends the same way every time - you either lose or have to fire them, then find someone else. plus, you’re left fixing the culture and admitting to your team that you messed up.
if i’m not sure, i prefer a one-week trial with my team, then i ask for their take. it’s a more community-focused approach, imo.
I saw this in action once. It was cringe. Don't do it.
The only exception to this might be the existing culture is shitty and you're bringing in someone with epic vibes to clean out and uplift the culture 💯 😅
Experience> me thinking about thinking
fuck no
everything is downstream of culture
Skills can be leaned.
Creating culture is infinitely more difficult.
Depends. Is your culture worth fitting? Teams can and do collesce around shared ideals that feel important to them but are in reality shallow, vapid, and antithetical to creating a great product.
With scale experience- I would challenge the it could maybe work for a remote work scenario.
What % would you allow 0%/low culture fits to reduce your overall culture?
Not a chance. Move on without a second thought.