One reason for working for them sounds less abusive, but more...stupid.

"You're one of the best front-end engineers you've ever known."

No, dickwad, that's a reason you should hire me. What it really means, of course, is: "We use the rash pride of inexperienced developers to set expectations sky-high, then justify the low salary when they turn out not to be the lovechild of Brendan Eich and Mike Bostock."