[mantas]

> If you substitute "poor programming skills environment" it suddenly makes sense

Why would it? From my experience, companies with poor code quality are great to poach junior-to-mid programmers. They're super happy to jump the ship and they're well aware of code smells and problems poor code causes.

> I'm all in favour of letting people discriminate on these grounds.

Would you discriminate based on person himself or because he dared to work for company you don't like?

[arjie]

I won't actively do that though I suppose some bias will seep into my judgment for every company whose work I admire.

But I think it's important that other people are able do it.

Also I picked "poor programming skills environment " to mean everyone there has poor programming skills.