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This is a pretty click-baity article that actually is more like 3 questions:

1. Is it a fair/just company? (Will I get promotions and raises for working hard?)

2. Is it safe? (Will I get fired for trying and failing at a task?)

3. Is it a place that provides autonomy? (Can I shape my own destiny here? Will I have influence?)

Good discriminators, and a more interesting way to vetting is to look at these questions, the answers from the company will all be positive, and then validate their answers against historical performance. Differences between answers and execution reveal how they are managed.

Put another way, if your company espouses values that it doesn't actually value in practice, then you probably want to find a different place to work :-)

how would you go about finding out this information as an outsider of the company?

Look at LinkedIn to see if long-time employees have gotten promotions. See what their turnover is like (if people are dropping like flies, particularly in a certain division/team, you can bet it's not a very safe place). Also see what kind of side projects develop out of the team. If you see tons of internal tools and useful "hackathon"-esque features, you can bet there's quite a bit of autonomy to be able to develop those kinds of things.

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