The Culture Fit Trap: Why You’re Solving the Wrong Hiring Problem By Jason P. Carroll _____________________________________________ When I was scaling my previous company, every time a hire didn’t work out, the explanation we gave ourselves was the same. Bad culture fit. It became the default diagnosis for everything from low performance to poor communication to someone just not clicking with the team. And it sounded right, like we’d figured out

We’re Not Hiring Employees. We’re Casting Performers Authored by: Abhishek Shah Last year, I hired someone who interviewed brilliantly. Thoughtful answers, sharp questions, a polished presence that made the entire panel confident. Six months later, they were gone, not because they had misrepresented themselves, but because the skills that made them great at interviewing had almost no relationship to what the role actually required. That experience forced me to confront