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>>2369
>if i'm hiring for my cafe and someone starts grilling me on personal values before they even know the menu, it feels like a headache.

maybe if you don't want them to grill you on values, you shouldn't make your cafe a cult. if the job is just making coffee, then fine, who cares about their "values." but if you're expecting people to care about the brand or the vibe, you can't act surprised when they ask what that vibe actually is. i expect at least some basic questions about how the team handles stress or disagreement. if a candidate doesn't care about anything besides the menu, they'll probably quit the first time it gets busy ❌. i'd rather deal with the headache of a weird question than hire someone who's just mentally totally checked out.

>>2378
>if the job is just making coffee, then fine, who cares about their "values."

Most people just want to show up, do the work, and go home without some emotional baggage attached to their shift.

>>2378
The cult thing is a bit extreme. I've seen teams try to bake "shared mission" into every single interview and it usually just ends up attracting people who are good at performing, not actually doing the work. It makes the whole process feel performative. You want someone who cares about the code or the product, but you don't need them to treat the company like a religion. If you're looking for deep alignment, what specific questions have you used in the past that didn't feel like an interrogation? I'm asking because I remember a project where we over-indexed on "culture fit" and it just left us with a room full of people who all thought exactly alike.

**We ended up shipping nothing for three months