Culture fit in individuals makes for worse business decisions; you just won't have the appropriate perspectives represented consistently if you're hiring for homogeneity instead of skill. Building culture as an organization, however, is critical to building the safe spaces where you can reap the benefits of that diversity WITHOUT crushing employees souls! (okay, not too much)

Culture has several components: Norms are the things you do, and values are why you do it - @phire at #Monktoberfest

Values are a much stronger indication than culture fit of what the person will do when there is no norm yet. Instead of culture fit, look for values alignment. Not the marketing version of the values, though, the ones they actually hold.

A key logger company, for example, cites independent thought, transparency, and trust as the values underlying their decision to track everything done on company hardware. - @phire at #Monktoberfest