Hiring
6 min read · Jan 28, 2026Interviewing 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
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