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> If it's on your resume of late, I won't hire you. Then they can't leave. I'm not sure that's what you want.

• kodablah 8y ago
  > Then they can't leave. I'm not sure that's what you want. It is, my statement is about industry-wide stigma henceforth, not specific literal effects on existing employees.
  • fixermark 8y ago
    I'm not sure how your clarification addresses MBlume's concern. A mass culture of "If you have X on your resume, I won't hire you" puts pressure on people who have X to stay in the space where X is true rather than try to exit it. It could put pressure on incoming software engineers to not join X, but if X's perks are good enough, will it? I'm reminded of the fact that undocumented immigrants in the US rose after the beginnings of tightened border security during the "war on drugs"---if the flow back and forth is easy, people flow back and forth. But if the flow is blocked, people will tend to stay where they are (or, worse, migrate to where the perks are better...).
    • kodablah 8y ago
      Sorry, I was unclear and didn't address the concern specifically. I meant it is still overall what I would want even with that downside. Granted I recognize that there will likely be no observable effect to such a limited, hard-line stance on these principles, but that's the case with many other principled choices too. I wouldn't suggest it if it was hard or unreasonable.