[tacostakohashi]

As best I can tell, company cultures are a made up marketing invention to retain and attract staff, and encourage Stockholm Syndrome.

"Come work for us, our culture is open and innovative!"

"Don't go and work for them, they have a bad culture!"

Funny how company cultures are totally a matter of opinion, and never measurable, verifiable or falsifiable, and never benefit employees.

Not to say that particular groups or teams don't have certain styles, but the idea that a megacorp has a consistent, company-wide culture that requires careful nurturing by the CEO to keep it special and magical is just absurd.

[bediger4000]

I was ready to disagree with you, until I got to "never measurable, verifiable or falsifiable". That part is correct, as is the particular groups or teams styles.

I still really want to disagree. Would it be possible to say that Evil MegaCorp A has better systems for personnel issues than B, so they have different cultures?

There's certainly huge differences in "HR systems" from one corporation to another.