My favorite example of this is Max Levchin in Founders at Work bragging that they didn&#x27;t hire a great engineering candidate because he said outside of work he likes to &quot;shoot hoops.&quot; According to Levchin it might have been okay to play basketball but saying &quot;hoops&quot; made it immediately clear this guy was a bad culture fit.<p>How can anyone read that and find Levchin&#x27;s reasoning compelling? He doesn&#x27;t have any sort of knowledge of casual basketball as a hobby and is making a value judgment on the word choice of the candidate based on Levchin&#x27;s own inexperience with the hobby culture the candidate lives in. It&#x27;s basically running up a flag that says if you think someone is remotely different from you don&#x27;t hire that person. Yet I&#x27;ve heard the opposite from some people, that this is a great move by Levchin. Jessice Livingston included this in her book of advice from founders! This is why there&#x27;s no diversity in SV.