There is nothing wrong with being a hired mercenary. If you consciously attempt to hire true believers, then you will get two kinds of employees: true believer

There is nothing wrong with being a hired mercenary. If you consciously attempt to hire true believers, then you will get two kinds of employees: true believers, and people who lie about true believers. That set of employees is probably pretty small compared to the larger set of qualified employees without such a restriction. You write off a huge pool of talent. Just because you're a mercenary doesn't mean you won't bring your all to the task at hand. Also, consider the employee relationship from the other direction. No corporation is going to hire an employee because the corporation is a true believer in the employee's mission. That relationship is a strictly mercenary one: Can you do for us what we need you to do for us? Full disclosure: I'm old.