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A study intended to examine racial and sexual prejudices in high-dollar hiring (for entry-level positions) finds instead that upper middle-class leisure activities can put a candidate over the top. An interest in rock climbing or film noir might get you a job as a banker, while another firm specialized in hiring "drab" personalities.
While cultural "fit" is indeed important to the functioning of a team, this hiring style probably tends to create the kind of echo chamber that occasionally makes really, really bad decisions or engages in criminal activity, lacking the thought diversity necessary to ensure that at least one or two dissenting voices would keep the train on the tracks.