I have converged to a single (compound) criterion:
"Who are going to be accountable for my professional well-being?"
This encodes inside that I have partners in the organization, whose success is associated with mine, and who have at least some of the ingredients to make things work; indeed it also includes the assumption that success is even possible.
As time goes by, I learnt to reject everything besides that - fancy words, supposed interest, money, etc.
Optimizing people's professional well-being is a bit akin to engineering: a good practitioner can describe their potential strategies, their relative merits and consequences, and interactively - at least to the first order.
"Who are going to be accountable for my professional well-being?"
This encodes inside that I have partners in the organization, whose success is associated with mine, and who have at least some of the ingredients to make things work; indeed it also includes the assumption that success is even possible.
As time goes by, I learnt to reject everything besides that - fancy words, supposed interest, money, etc.