After hiring ~40 people, I'm convinced most companies skip the one step that actually determines fit | Switzerland
I have spent the last four years on the employer side and hired around 40 people for my company. The pattern I keep seeing, in my own process and talking to other people who hire, is that almost nobody defines what they are actually hiring for beyond the job description and a list of skills. So the interview turns into a gut-feel exercise, and "culture fit" becomes a vague label people use to justify a decision they already made emotionally.
When I did not define values and working style upfront, I made expensive wrong hires. The skills were there, but the person and the team pulled in different directions, and they were usually gone within a year. When I did define it clearly and held the whole process to it, hiring got faster and the decisions held up. It also made rejections cleaner, because the reasons were actually articulable.
I am genuinely curious how the people in this sub handle it. Do you have a structured way to assess values and working style, or is it still mostly interviewer instinct at your org? And does leadership actually buy into it, or do they treat culture fit as a soft nice-to-have?