Among the things employees like to try to glean from an interview with a new company is how healthy that company’s culture is. It’s not an easy thing to determine by spending half an hour in an office, nor is it the kind of thing you necessarily can take a hiring manager’s word for. Who wants to admit nobody is happy at their company? Employees were asked to reply anonymously to the question, “Did your interview process give you a good representation of the culture at your company?”
This info comes from the latest reading of an ongoing study by Comparably. Over 10,000 employees responded to the question.
More than two-thirds of male and female respondents said that, yes, the interview process gave them a good sense of how their current company’s culture was.
When respondents are broken up into ethnicities, we see some slight variations, but “yes” responses occurred with about the same frequency as with above overall averages. Asian/Pacific Islanders and Hispanic/Latinos responded “yes” slightly more frequently; African-Americans responded positively slightly less frequently.
Responses by age remain just above 70% positive until employees hit about 40 years of age. From there, “no” responses start to rise, reaching a peak for the 46-50 age group. This may have to do with the fact that the concept of a b internal culture is not one the has been at the forefront of the conversation for that long, meaning that some in the workforce had a chance to become accustomed to a more no-frills atmosphere.
Oddly, when respondents are broken up by top education level attained, a major dip appears for those who identified themselves as having completed “some college.” From there, numbers bound back up to the mid-low 70s (higher even than responses employees who had only finished high school) for those holding a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
As with other culture questions about a company’s follow-through, employees from both HR and the Executive suite answered “yes” at a rate clearly much higher than the overall average. Coming in notably less positive than that overall average are workers from Operations (who often end up on the opposite end of the spectrum from the Execs) and Design.
By department, male and female employees were largely in-line with each others’ responses. The biggest discrepancies appeared in Business Development and Legal, where men were more likely to say “yes,” and Operations, where it was the female employees who were more positive.
Latest reading as of December 19..
