[otterley]

The reason certain minorities are protected is in part because the reason for discrimination is because of race, gender, or other attributes they were born with and cannot change.

The choice of where to work is just that--a choice. Choices have consequences. If you willingly accept continued association with a known group of bad actors, it's reasonable that someone might judge your character poorly for that choice.

[mahyarm]

I wont hire someone from google, because they have hyper creepy dossiers on everyone. I wont hire from FB, because they were bros in the past, have privacy problems and also have creepy dossiers on everyone. I wont hire from apple, because how could someone support an asshole like steve jobs? I wont hire someone from amazon/AWS, have you seen how they treat their warehouse workers? I won't hire someone from microsoft, they were monopolist assholes! I wont hire someone who worked at a chinese company, they act even worse than all of the above!

I won't hire someone who moved to large powerful country X, because they could immigrate to europe and not support such a bad government with their tax dollars. I wont hire a person who moved to city X, because they generate the housing disaster displacing poor people. I wont hire a religious person, becaue religion has done horrible things. I wont hire a non-religious person, because they have no morals.

I won't hire a guy who stayed at media-hated company for X years even though I have no idea what their personal situation was. Maybe if they left, their green card would be delayed for a year a two. A year of someones life is nothing right? Maybe the 100 person team at their 10-50k employee company was really nice and had none of the toxic crap reported by the media.

It's a dangerous road to judge people like that, lest you be judged the same, in secret.

[mantas]

As if majority of Uber workers thought "hey, I could offend women and do shit there, I want to work for them!". And sure all programmers value workplace image over technical challenges?

It's as reasonable to think ex-Uberist is douche as that ghetto-looking dude stole a bicycle on the way to job interview. Possible? Yes. More likely than average citizen? Yes. Reasonable?

If people would be (soft-)forced to steer clear from anyone who might look like a bad actor, it'd suck big time. Want to take down opponents? Spread some rumours and people are afraid to work with them. Or companies would be over-the-top to look good instead of focusing on what they actually do. Github and their diversity team comes to mind.

[sgift]

> And sure all programmers value workplace image over technical challenges?

No, but then they've made a decision and sometimes those come back to haunt you. That said: I wouldn't dismiss someone from a position just because they've worked at Uber, but I would ask "pointed questions" to quote the article. At the end of the day you will have to work with that person and I'd rather work with nice people than not.

[ubernostrum]

If you willingly accept continued association with a known group of bad actors

Speaking of which, what's the polite euphemism YC now uses to describe its relationship with Peter Thiel? and how likely is anyone to believe they're continuing that in order to stand on principle vs. baser reasons?

[maverick_iceman]

People can change their religions, it's still a protected class.