Everyone is on their best behavior at a job interview. The interviewee is putting the best version of himself forward, and the hiring manager is trying to put their company in the best light. Since culture is becoming an increasingly important factor in the U.S. workplace and in terms retention, we were curious how often employees felt that their company’s culture had been accurately represented during their interview cycle. We asked employees, “Did you interview process give you a good representation of the culture at your company?”
The information comes from the latest reading of an ongoing study by Comparably.com.
More than two-thirds of employees said they did get a good sense of their soon-to-be company’s culture via the interview process. Women and men landed exactly the same on this issue.
When responses are broken up by ethnicity, we see that Asian/Pacific Islanders and Hispanic/Latinos had slightly higher positive responses to the question than the overall average for all employees. African-Americans and Caucasians were in line with overall average responses.
Employees from the HR and Executive department were most positive in their responses, well ahead of other departments. Is there any company culture question for which Executives and HR aren’t the biggest cheerleaders? Or where more “in the trenches” departments like IT and Operations aren’t less positive?
Employees of the first few age brackets respond in line with overall responses as seen at the top of this snapshot, with negative responses starting to rise with the 36-40 and then the 41-45 age groups. This implies, more than anything, that the expectation of a healthy culture is less ingrained in older workers.
In terms of departmental responses sorted by gender, the largest discrepancies are in Operations – where more females than males said their had gotten a good feel for their culture from the interviews – and Legal, where its the men who are more positive. In most departments, men are women were in close alignment.
Latest reading as of January 16..
