Proselytizing need not be linked to religion, you are promoting a thought system (one that I agree with, for what its worth).
Forgive me if I came off as dismissive, that was not the intention. I only meant to suggest that there may be a better way to accomplish your goal, one which is more subtle and gentle.
you might want to refer to the manual sections on tolerance and gentleness for a good exposition on why this kind of proselytizing is counter-productive =)
True but unfortunately it is not always easy to tell how distracting an environment will be until you are actually working in it.
One of the worst environments I've worked in was when I had a private office but there were 3 very extroverted and juvenile employees stationed right outside my door.
A python developer with limited experience is likely to use too many 3rd party libraries in simple cases where they are really not needed. As the application grows this turns into a maintenance and/or performance nightmare.
Not to mention the fact that it takes experience to understand/troubleshoot/fix third party code. When things go wrong the dev with 10 years experience is going to be vastly more productive than one with less experience.
I am a python dev with >10 years experience and I manage numerous junior devs with limited experience, so I see this kind of thing all the time.
I used to work on an ERP software that is used in-house by many recruiting firms so I understand the industry well.
hkarthik's comment is right on the money.
The very high level executive recruiting firms tend to care more about both sides of the equation (employee and client/employer) because its a higher stakes game for them and the talent pool is fairly limited at that level.
Forgive me if I came off as dismissive, that was not the intention. I only meant to suggest that there may be a better way to accomplish your goal, one which is more subtle and gentle.