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"Culture fit" is typically a thinly-veiled excuse for age discrimination. Or other kinds of discrimination, for that matter.

Or they're the kind of company that will ask you about your hobbies and then reject you if you don't have the same hobbies as the rest of the team. If you're a mild-mannered, introverted enterprisey person, and the company is a hip young startup staffed with extraverted brogrammers, you're going to be rejected for "culture fit". It's toxic.




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