Don’t have a good name for this effect, but bear with me:
I don’t know any good company that is 100% happy with their incentive structure. But absence of tweaking internal incentives is probably a negative signal.
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I don’t know any seriously good company that’s 100% happy with their hiring process. But absence of productively tweaking hiring criteria is likely a negative signal.
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When talking with B2B companies, I am alert to those who don’t recognise and manage the tension between sales customisation and general product development. I downgrade those who didn’t even recognise that this is a struggle.
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Maybe the general rule is: certain classes of organisational design problems are so hard you’re never really done; the act of struggling is itself a positive signal. Stay away from companies that don’t even bother.