I'm in the middle of a casual job search, and evaluating companies is difficult.<p>Values are important to me, so people recommend that I try `keyvalues.com`. But that site is basically matching what you think is important to what the company is willing to say about itself.<p>Values are expressed through choices. It's nice to say "we value representation", but if you had conflict between a superstar jerk and an underrepresented minority junior, who would be dismissed or reassigned? If you make a choice for one or the other, there's evidence for what you actually value.<p>I drew up a list of things that might be determined empirically, if you were somehow omniscient about what the company did.<p>- demographics of who works there<p>- how decisions are made, maybe with evidence and standard codes for how it works out.<p>- what software processes are you currently using and how effective are they?<p>- how often do you release?<p>- retention period<p>- salary<p>- general worker happiness<p>- company growing<p>- customer happiness<p>- customer promotion<p>- impacts and externalities on the world, generally<p>Would this be feasible? Would companies be willing to go under the microscope like this, even allow anonymous polling of their employees?