That's not to say salary should be secret (dear god, no), but how cool a company is IS an important metric in and of itself.
If only I had $1 for each time I saw a company showing off foosball tables, game consoles in the hallway, picnics, team get-togethers, people laughing and being cheerful.... And in the end it's the same cubic hellhole where people are no better than anonymous cogs in the machine.
No, not really. It just means that HR had a PR budget to sell themselves as cool, and they bought a game as a prop.
My point is that this blend of signaling is pure bait-and-switch. The mods operandi is that they sell this false idea that they are all about fun and games but in the end it's just a low-paying cubicle hellhole with crunch time as the baseline.
Companies with strong values usually have them publicly exposed somewhere, for instance for Cookpad: https://www.cookpadteam.com/careers
If you already have a page about how cool you are, it doesn't need to be repeated in every posting, and candidates for who it matters the most will have more information than shortened descriptions to avoid walls of texts in the job posting itself.
"You face up to reality, knowing that you can change it" -- things like that can be said about almost any job. And the rest of the things on the page too I think.
What would the opposite to facing up to reality be?
"Here, we don't accept reality. And if something is bad, it has to stay so."
They write:
"There’s a big difference between saying that you’re making good in the world and actually doing it. "
They're a recipe sharing site.
(Nevertheless, seems like maybe a nice place to work at)