At the same time it’s basically the only filtering criteria provided besides “software developer job.” Having worked a few different SWE jobs, I know that some company cultures which people love are cultures I hate, and vice versa. I would point someone to completely different directions based off a response. Not because I think it’s likely they got their multidimensional culture preferences exactly perfectly communicated, but because the search space is so huge it’s good to at least have an estimator on how to order what things to look into.
At the same time it’s basically the only filtering criteria provided besides “software developer job.” Having worked a few different SWE jobs, I know that some company cultures which people love are cultures I hate, and vice versa. I would point someone to completely different directions based off a response. Not because I think it’s likely they got their multidimensional culture preferences exactly perfectly communicated, but because the search space is so huge it’s good to at least have an estimator on how to order what things to look into.