Are you suggesting that interviewers should try harder to conform to social beliefs of a company -- as a valid interview strategy?
I'd instead suggest that it should never get to the point of an in-person interview unless both parties have already applied the necessary culture filters. Sure, you could get surprised at the on-site and then change your mind, but you're just wasting a ton of your own time if you either don't properly vet the important culture properties aheadof time, or else sublimate away your own culture standards because you believe you have to appear conformist in order to get the job.
A good example would be open-plan offices. I have many friends in tech who deeply loathe the cognitive damage done to them by their employers forcing them to work in open-plan seating conditions. Yet they also are too afraid to either speak up or to reject employers who use open-plan seating, thus perpetuating open-plan dogma.
My perspective is that if an employer feels I'm worth the investment to bring to the team, they must feel that trivial other things to accommodate what helps me work best are also worthwhile. If, instead, a company would reject me based on "culture fit" for these side issue accommodations, or would refuse to grant them and try to pressure me to work without them, then in either case I'm dodging a massive bullet by either rejecting them or letting them reject me.
But one thing I should absolutely never do is to compromise on those issues (e.g. "no matter how good you are, you won't get into a long-term relationship ... if you don't conform"). If my goodness isn't enticing enough for them to not just make the offer but also think hard about what it would take for me to be happy with them and make it happen, then I'm simply better off staying away from them.
As it happens, a lot of companies don't really care about the goodness of their employees. They just want warm bodies who will conform to the company line. I understand that represents most jobs.
I'd like the future to be a world where that doesn't represent most jobs, so I boycott all such jobs, even if it means my search space is drastically reduced as a result.
It's just too cognitively unhealthy to human minds otherwise.
I'd instead suggest that it should never get to the point of an in-person interview unless both parties have already applied the necessary culture filters. Sure, you could get surprised at the on-site and then change your mind, but you're just wasting a ton of your own time if you either don't properly vet the important culture properties aheadof time, or else sublimate away your own culture standards because you believe you have to appear conformist in order to get the job.
A good example would be open-plan offices. I have many friends in tech who deeply loathe the cognitive damage done to them by their employers forcing them to work in open-plan seating conditions. Yet they also are too afraid to either speak up or to reject employers who use open-plan seating, thus perpetuating open-plan dogma.
My perspective is that if an employer feels I'm worth the investment to bring to the team, they must feel that trivial other things to accommodate what helps me work best are also worthwhile. If, instead, a company would reject me based on "culture fit" for these side issue accommodations, or would refuse to grant them and try to pressure me to work without them, then in either case I'm dodging a massive bullet by either rejecting them or letting them reject me.
But one thing I should absolutely never do is to compromise on those issues (e.g. "no matter how good you are, you won't get into a long-term relationship ... if you don't conform"). If my goodness isn't enticing enough for them to not just make the offer but also think hard about what it would take for me to be happy with them and make it happen, then I'm simply better off staying away from them.
As it happens, a lot of companies don't really care about the goodness of their employees. They just want warm bodies who will conform to the company line. I understand that represents most jobs.
I'd like the future to be a world where that doesn't represent most jobs, so I boycott all such jobs, even if it means my search space is drastically reduced as a result.
It's just too cognitively unhealthy to human minds otherwise.