Would I survive at…?

The same person thrives in one company and suffocates in another, usually not because of the work, but because of the operating culture around it: flat or hierarchical, process-led or relationship-led, flexible or structured.

Eighteen yes-or-no’s place you, then rank you against thirteen recognizable working cultures: Valve’s no-management studio, a Silicon Valley startup, Toyota’s process discipline, a regulated bank, a Finnish team. The top of the list is where your defaults are an asset; the bottom is where they read as friction.

Useful before a job change, and a more honest question than “is this a good company”: is it a good company for how you work?