Back in 1997 I was granted the opportunity to interview at one of their companies at the headquarters in Wichita. I would have been 33, and had just left Houston as a Senior Director of Budgeting and Analysis at a large gas company. Had moved up the ranks pretty quickly and was considered a good employee.
I show up for the interview, and the receptionist hands be a packet with HR info, and several newspaper clippings from the local newspaper. One of the clippings had the following highlighted in yellow "Koch employees are no longer required to work on Saturdays". Of course this piqued my curiosity. In the interview with an HR rep, we get the chit chat over and I ask about the clipping.......about 10 minutes in. She says "yeah we changed that requirement about a year or so ago, but if you want to get anywhere in here, I'd just apply that to Sunday morning, but Saturday you would probably want to at least show your face in the office for a good portion of the day". I took this in for a second, thanked her for the opportunity and said "I don't want to waste anymore of your time, as this would not be a fit". She turned about 3 shades of white. I didn't miss out, and some of the friends that I met (via Fantasy) hated working there, but the pay was so good they couldn't bring themselves to leave.
One thing that they did do that was interesting was they did not budget. They wanted their management focused on running the business. At the end of the year, they were graded on expectations based on the circumstances that occurred during the year. IE...........you may do the best job of your life preventing losses, but you don't meet target so you get no bonus in most companies, but at Koch, you had a chance still.