So long as you are filtering out all companies with government contracts as "a company culture that sucks," that's true. https://www.samhsa.gov/workplace/legal/federal-laws/contract... requires any organization receiving a federal contract of over $100,000 or a federal grant of any size to do so. Tied to that is a page of HHS-certified labs for drug testing and federally regulated industries.

It's pretty silly but it seems to be a common thread.

Nothing in the minimum requirements listing here mentions drug testing, though. So the places that are doing drug testing are zealously going above and beyond, which itself is a big red flag.

The "Drug Free Workplace Act" does not require drug testing.

There are drug testing requirements for specific jobs/industries that are safety and security related.

https://www.samhsa.gov/workplace/legal/federal-laws/safety-s...

Worked for a company that had to drug test its people (and take other security measures) to get items through federal customs in an expedited fashion.

I worked for a (small boutique) consulting firm and the much larger telecom company they placed me at required a drug test. The culture in my group there did happen to suck, bad enough that my form pulled let me come off the client after just a month.