At Costco headquarters in Issaquah, WA, executives sit in cubicles, the water in the lobby is Kirkland Signature, and the coffee is Kirkland pods. The company has never done a layoff, including after merging two nearly identical 100-store companies. Craig Jelinek's LinkedIn still lists him as an EVP, not CEO, a decade into his tenure. The company's current CEO and its founding CEO both started as grocery baggers.