Values. They do mean a different things to different parties.
Values what do they mean for you in a conceptual level? A treasure? A jewel perhaps? a wedding ring?
Do they mean same to your employer than to you? Do employer’s values mean same to you than to them?
At work they are words to show what principles company work at. Some take them more literally than others. In military, values can be thought to be a doctrine - and surpsingly then they actually have a meaning.
Values are worthless if they are not followed. Yet they bring extreme value (pun intended) when they are followed.
When interviewing into a job, it may be valuable to have a discussion about values. In this way it can probably prevent landing into a micromanagemented job, where one does not like to be. Values, philosophical discussion about humanity for finding that, and then discussion about technical corner areas to find others. Instead, quite often the job interview concentrates on mechanical things, like job history, but that does not carve out people who have egoism etc - character is more important. Or not so often what made a manager eligible to manage in the first place
