> it will be hard to find some of them and to impress them by your anti-corporate-politics stance in a way that leads to immediate hiring.

I think this might get at a cultural/values difference.

For some, an important goal is to be honest, and/or to be known as honest.

Maybe for its own sake, maybe for a more complicated reason (like they want to promote honesty by example so they can trust others, or want to avoid small dishonesty turning into big dishonesty).

But some others trying to fit that to immediate goals, will be, like: . o O ( OK, self, I can make this counterparty think I'm honest, for cost X, but how much will that advance my objective of getting them to take action Y, which is the goal, of course )

The elite schools and top-paying tech employers that encourage truth-bending and theatre, in getting in and then advancing, are promoting the latter kind of thinking about honesty.

We can debate which thinking is better, but we can inform that by understanding the other groups better.