Cultural, personal and ideological (oof, what a word... kind of a red flag) are just proxies for "people _I_ like". Go far enough down that path and that is how you end up discriminating people for how they look/think/express themselves.
I'll honestly take Leetcode every time over this. I can grind algorithms, I can't change the fact that I'm Indian/Hispanic/Whatever.
It can be, again, being Danish makes this a little hard to talk about on the global scale. We’re very homogeneous to the point that I once worked in a team where 33.3% weren’t white men and that was so far above the organisations average that we were awarded… we had one woman and one Indian guy, so 2 out of 6, and that’s how homogeneous our society is.
But I’ve worked in a little bit of both environments. Usually it depends more on the people than the hiring practices in my experience. It’s always a danger that you’ll want to hire someone like yourself.
I'll honestly take Leetcode every time over this. I can grind algorithms, I can't change the fact that I'm Indian/Hispanic/Whatever.