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by braza 1102 days ago
In this case, you're shooting the messenger. You can think that citing company values can be moralistic, but at the end of the day it's all about showing the people to not drink the Kool-aid and how ruthless the market is.

It's easy to say that the ZIRP time was the main drive of this decade for the crazy market where we are, but let's not forget that most of those companies lured people and part of the market based on some misleading "employer branding" optics like transparency, being a great employer, autonomy, inflated salaries, distorted incentives and so on.

They are co-responsible for these shaky times as well also.