[culturalfitt]

I can understand it. I just thought it was a bit too extreme. At some point it seemed like I was interviewing them (but I hadn't asked any questions).

They seemed a bit bummed out when my hobbies weren't traveling around the world or helping impoverished communities in my spare time. They asked me what great thing I wanted to learn next and when I say $tool_X, I could feel the disappointment.

But it was good to see this first hand. On one hand, I think maybe HR is running the cultural filter a bit too high... who knows if the engineering culture is like that?

On the other hand, if that alone without asking a single question about my experience or skills is enough to reject me... that's a bit too extreme. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

[rubyfan]

my outlook on those sorts of filtering activities is that if it doesn’t fit and that’s what’s most important to the company then it might be in your favor anyway.

When your work contribution is secondary to other things, I question a company’s long term resolve.