alt Hacker NewsIn that specific position probably leaning more towards biased than towards well-informed, though both components likely do exist.
It's not well-paid enough to be immune to kool-aid etc, and it's not on the sociopathic management level either, so we can expect a certain degree of very human rationalization going on.
How would being high paid help make you immune to kool aid? In my experience in low paid work, it’s a lot easier to hate the company…