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6 min read · Jan 28, 2026

Interviewing across cultures without flattening them

Your hiring scorecard is probably calibrated to one culture. Here's how to broaden it without lowering the bar.

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Jordan Whitfield
Head of Talent · Northbound
Interviewing across cultures without flattening them

Most interview rubrics implicitly reward one cultural style of communication: assertive, narrative, self-promotional.

Calibrating broader doesn't mean lowering the bar — it means listening for signal in different registers.

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Jordan Whitfield
Head of Talent · Northbound
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