I find that a turn off. Never refer to the competition as incompetent. Agreed - never mind "professional" or not; it comes across as intellectually shallow.

I find that a turn off. Never refer to the competition as incompetent. Agreed - never mind "professional" or not; it comes across as intellectually shallow. Companies can lack vision, or simply taste, or get in over their heads or stuck in a groove ... and lets face it (in rarer cases) some are outright delusional -- but if they get to the $2b stage, it is difficult to call them meaningfully "incompetent". If you think they are, odds are its you who's missing something about the bigger picture.