If you work for a small company and the original founder made the values, you can derive a lot about the company culture from the founder, and the values they a

If you work for a small company and the original founder made the values, you can derive a lot about the company culture from the founder, and the values they announce (truthful or not) are a way of understanding them. If you work for a big company, and the values were made at a corporate event, the values are a lie. They were made to sound good, but do not reflect the opinions of any one person. At best they represent some average of what the people most eager to declare generic human values at corporate events feel. In either case, it’s just internal marketing. The true values of a workplace will be evident after a while, no matter what the values are declared as. Especially, when a company has the value “transparency”, they usually don’t.