Culture isn't a pick list

One time, a potential employer asked me to complete their "culture survey" as part of the hiring process.  This survey was 2 questions where I was asked to pick words that described me and words that desribed how I behaved in work environments.  It was a simple pick list, in that I chose single words.  The lists were long, over a 100 words each.   Words were like "meticulous", "diligent" and so on.   I was not given any direction of how many words to pick.

They declined to further the hiring process with me, based entirely on choices made in the survey.   I am fine with that. 

I do have some problems understanding this survey translates to successful job performance.  There is no way in any form of accuracy assess if I will be able to work with the team, the stakeholders, users and other people by list of words chosen.  There is no way to asses if I produce quality results, timely results, and be successful simply by a selection of words from a survey.

When a project gets behind, code suffers from performance or quality, will they be able to take a step back and say "we didn't hire the right fit"?  Nope.  Again, not possible--let alone no executive has the tenacity to do so. 

If you really want to know if someone is a good fit, you actually have to talk to them.  You have to present them with some challenges aka what if....and guage their responses.