&gt; Would you stay at a company in whose purpose you don&#x27;t believe, if you liked your manager?<p>There are a couple of people on my current project whose company I enjoy and who have personal attributes that I&#x27;d like to foster in myself. I&#x27;m staying with it solely for that reason, the business model it uses was dead in the water two years ago and it&#x27;s in the die-off period - the project itself is just making efficiency savings on something that&#x27;s never going to be profitable again.<p>I&#x27;d choose to do so again, it&#x27;s never made life bad for me to choose to share closer company with the people I respect - and when the time to move jobs has come up, a few months ahead of the crash, there have always been plenty of friends in other companies that would put in a good word.<p>What has been a bad call for me has been to stay in bad company, for the chance to work on something &#x27;important&#x27; while management has been incompetent or peers have been markedly hostile. That&#x27;s contributed to some of the lowest times of my life.