Clearly producing value for shareholders needs to come before ethics, morals and general decency.
Are you referring to the "x people has looked at this room in the last y" scam message?
yes
Of course the entire rest of the chain is cleared of all wrongdoing, because the CEO, the VP and the product manager didn't write the code. Nice.
We submit to cutthroat and exploitive recruitment processes so we can submit to assholes in the workplace ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Some claim the remuneration package makes it worth it.