I really wonder about this kind of article. The company I work for has some similar values to GitLab and some different ones. I've learnt something from every j

I really wonder about this kind of article. The company I work for has some similar values to GitLab and some different ones. I've learnt something from every job I've worked in, good or bad. But these values are nebulous concepts. The usually come from what the company already thinks it does rather than an aspiration. As an aspiration they would kind of suck. My personal position is that you should think about the values of the organisation you work for and understand them, why they're there, where they came from. But don't internalise them, don't have corporate values in your heart. They are strictly limited and they aren't and can't be actually meaningful to the organisation itself because it's not a person. Someone there could still get you fired or do things that run against those values because they feel like it and the organisation as a whole will not protect you just because those values are written. I've had a little interaction with GitLab and it wasn't good. Clearly some of the people I talked to were not following these values, they were not kind and understanding. But I know people who do work there and enjoy it. The company I work for talks about values a lot, and that's fine, I agree with the ideas behind them, mostly, but I think those talking about it have less control over the actual values and culture at the org than they think.