[SonOfKyuss]

In my experience, both sides of an interview tend to avoid politics so that doesn’t often come into play directly. At least not in any of the technical interviews I’ve been a part of over multiple decades. Of course an interviewer may make assumptions about a candidate’s political positions based on the categories I mentioned in my original post (age, gender), but that type of fit would already be covered under those categories.

I could also see religious beliefs fitting into that category of culture fit if the candidate’s attire includes religious symbols or articles of clothing.

[curtisblaine]

> In my experience, both sides of an interview tend to avoid politics

They do, but in many cases the interviewer looks at the social media profile of the candidates. It's always the most vocal on both sides that tend to fill their public profiles of loud political statements (so they're easy to spot) and many wouldn't hire an outspoken far right winger or a blatantly death-to-capitalism lib type in their team.