Maybe you couldn't distinguish between Valley tech firms from reading this document, but if you expand to all companies then yeah actually most of them wouldn't ever explicitly say, on their blog, that they will systematically fire people for mere low performance. Most executives would rather die than discuss firing people, let alone making it a point of pride.

I worked for a big consulting firm and stupidly raised my hand in a regional rollout meeting for our new “strategy.”

I got like five minutes from a few partners saying that it was actually unique and no one could replicate because our people are so awesome.

That helped form my idea that these things are ritual, not content. It’s just about focusing attention and building community, not actually meaning anything. These are corporate mcguffins.

They are useful for trying to find meaningful work as people who say these things are probably “not cool” or are sacrificing their “cool” toward some greater purpose (eg, money, fame, martyrdom).

Yes it could be any company.

But I think sometimes it helps that out of sea of litany of HR or corporate speak, some are documented.

Documentation helps in conflict resolution.. "We should wait for some more time to get the right talent, till then let's shoot a mail to Mgr asking her to defer the project".