Every company talks about their culture during the interview. How many actually deliver on it once you’re through the door? I’ve experienced both sides of that gap, and it’s made me much more intentional about the environments I choose to work in.
How do you evaluate whether a company’s culture is real or just well-marketed?

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I've always paid some attention to what gets said about company culture. I'm also aware that a lot of that is aspirational. And in my day to day work, what's really going to matter is the team I'm assigned to. The handful of people I deal with day in and day out have much more to do with how things go than whatever fine phrases appear in the employee handbook.

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I feel like it is complicated to get a workplace culture right because certain upper managers will add their own flavor to it so it could change from the interview to when you start

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Yeah, everyone has their own perspective of culture from top to bottom right

You can observe whether middle level employees speak and ask questions naturally, or you can conduct background checks on the company's average employee tenure, especially if there are frequent turnovers in core positions. This indicates a problem with the company's corporate culture.

Very few companies deliver on the culture that they speak of, in my experience. I will say, when I worked at Allstate in college, they absolutely did have a great culture. That was the only company I ever worked at that followed through on their promises in the interview.

I try to evaluate culture by asking about real behaviours rather than slogans. Questions about how decisions are made or how conflict is handled often reveal more than any culture statement.

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