'Culture' is too flexible a word to be useful. It carries with it connotations that muddy issues. It should be retired as a useful way to describe any group of people smaller than a few dozen thousand.
'Culture fit' means sharing a common approach to problem solving. It means people are not there to just occupy a seat and collect a salary but to have an impact on the company they work for and, by extension, the world at large. It means having a consuming curiosity that drives them to learn. It means not being afraid of change and upheaval but a tendency to embrace it. It means treating other with kindness even when it is hard. Or jump into solving problems without fear. Those kinds of things.
It is easy to get saddled with a cube dweller who has no interest in pushing things but enjoys the status quo and collecting a check. That is poison. That is what people mean by 'cultural fit' not whether they like to play ultimate frisbee or like the Beatles or afternoon drinking.
So, instead of 'cultural fit' I'd say 'aligned with the company's approach'.
As soon as you attach 'culture' to anything it evokes some sort of impenetrable collective-mind behemoth that takes on different attributes based on who is thinking or talking about it. It is a waste of time.
'Culture fit' means sharing a common approach to problem solving. It means people are not there to just occupy a seat and collect a salary but to have an impact on the company they work for and, by extension, the world at large. It means having a consuming curiosity that drives them to learn. It means not being afraid of change and upheaval but a tendency to embrace it. It means treating other with kindness even when it is hard. Or jump into solving problems without fear. Those kinds of things.
It is easy to get saddled with a cube dweller who has no interest in pushing things but enjoys the status quo and collecting a check. That is poison. That is what people mean by 'cultural fit' not whether they like to play ultimate frisbee or like the Beatles or afternoon drinking.
So, instead of 'cultural fit' I'd say 'aligned with the company's approach'.
As soon as you attach 'culture' to anything it evokes some sort of impenetrable collective-mind behemoth that takes on different attributes based on who is thinking or talking about it. It is a waste of time.