Culture fit is a term for having a test in your hiring process about how a candidate will fit in with your company's existing culture.
Problems with culture fit tests[]
Culture fit tests cause you to hire people who culturally resemble your existing employees. When your company's culture has been established by a predominately privileged workforce (eg, a tech office full of white men whose cultural references are Anglosphere science fiction in-jokes), culture fit tests are likely to perpetrate your lack of diversity and possible hostility to workers from other cultures or oppressed groups.
Further reading[]
Cultural fit: A cop-out for discrimination? by Cameron Edmond
Ethical Culture Fit by Tim Chevalier
- Diversity Messes With Your Culture… And That’s a Good Thing by Lauren Bacon
- The Newest Frontier by Lesli-Ann Lewis