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I would reframe the suggestion as two ideas. 1) "hire for your culture" and 2) conditioning on a cultural expectation of individuals putting up with lots of problems on their own, "make sure new hires can cope."

The latter is an important point, but the idea that all startups have this attitude towards employees and crisis management is not accurate.

How important is it for potential candidates to know if the culture at a startup they are considering working for has these values? I'm guessing a blog like this turns off a lot of people, but to the author's point, not anyone they would hire. Effective :D

FD: back end dev at Mighty Spring, we do startup hiring. (mightyspring.com)