How to Hire
Several years ago, right here on HN, a Google employee expressed shock that candidates wouldn&#x27;t bother to open the &quot;red book&quot; and review before showing up for an interview at Google.  I had no idea what the &quot;red book&quot; was.  Turns out that it&#x27;s a particular algorithms textbook used by several top universities.  That poster was so wrapped up in a particular culture that he was using colloquial slang to refer to expectations.<p>That&#x27;s about the same time I realized tech hiring is almost entirely about cultural bias.  Watching coworkers talk about rejected candidates as if they were morons for simply having a slightly different approach to, say, OOP architecture, further convinced me of this.<p>In my experience, &quot;culture fit&quot;, as cited in post-interview discussion, was almost purely code for ageism.  Meanwhile, most of the supposedly technical stuff was really culture.