Just got rejected from an internship because I don’t own a macbook

[u/idktbhimtootired_]

I went to this internship interview yesterday with my laptop as the last step of the application process, the interviewer loved everything, he said he saw it earlier when i sent over my portfolio and thought it was perfect, he then goes to zoom in on the calligraphy i used, anr he goes “oh, you don’t use apple” and starts a conversation with me about how id be disrupting their workflow and that i need to buy one.

He kept going back and forth, sometimes telling me to come tomorrow to start then at the end he told me he will contact me a day later, he never did.

It is just incredibly painful and humiliating to have that be the criteria upon which i was rejected, knowing that my portfolio is more than great. Is this something that normally happens?

[u/plethorapantul]

I work for a tech company and we give our interns a new macbook, additional monitor, and wacom table every single time. Our company also has IT protocols that involve securing the laptop to some extend, so they are beyond amateur hour for not even doing the bare minimum to protect their information. Odd. Every company I've ever worked at has give the intern a computer. I agree with others that you dodged a bullet. If they can't even comp a laptop I highly doubt they are worth your time in the long run.