You do not want to stand out at these companies. From experience, you will get fired. Morale is at rock bottom, no one is working hard, the only benefit is that

You do not want to stand out at these companies. From experience, you will get fired. Morale is at rock bottom, no one is working hard, the only benefit is that expectations are near the limit of nothing so long as you do even the most miniscule actions of value. Working at Hell Corporation with CEO Satan is incredibly depressing. The reason people don't leave is that interviewers can smell the desperation and downtroddenness. This is coupled with not having written anything except muddy meatballs on top of spaghetti code for your tenure. Evil CEOs are a feature in these companies. They crush the souls of their workers to prevent them from being able to leave. It usually works long enough for the founders to sell their stakes to a witless VC before the whole operation explodes in a ball of fire.