Ultimately anything a company does is for its own benefit. But there are shades. In some smaller firms you'll get to work on things that set you up for the lon

Ultimately anything a company does is for its own benefit. But there are shades. In some smaller firms you'll get to work on things that set you up for the long run, way after you leave. Those companies actually "invest in people". It happens in smaller industries where there's churn and the same people may come back as employees, customers or even employer/suppliers several times in the their life. Making and maintaining relations with good people is a canny investment. Dehumanisation of working relations, giant companies and globalism have driven that out. While the original form of the "corporation" was almost a mini welfare state, financialisation has actually turned that care into hostility. Today, especially in tech, companies not only want to control every thought and action, but to make sure you don't take any value beyond their door. This is evidenced by the rise of draconian employment "agreements" such as non-compete, non disclosure, no rival employment clauses, intellectual property land-grabs into your private life and personal data, and so on. These are cults that want to own you, make no mistake. This is actually another reason they eschew standards. Someone who learns open tools and protocols can migrate in their career. But if you can keep employees working with obscure, proprietary workflows, and keep changing them, then the dizzying torrent of make-work "re-training" means they will never gain enough independence to fly the nest.