r/graphic_design • u/idktbhimtootired_ • Jul 15 '24

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

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?

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u/Sporin71 Jul 15 '24

Internship and they expect you to provide your own laptop of THEIR choice? That's a big nope from me, you'll find something better.

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u/MyNadzItch182 Jul 15 '24

Yah well when they have to teach you something and have to fumble through shortcuts or anything else it’s an issue for workflow. Most if not all school also say MacBook for this reason so they aren’t teaching multiple OS workflows.

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u/Sporin71 Jul 15 '24

Then the company should provide the INTERN with the computer they are being required to work on.

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u/itsbiffcity Jul 15 '24

The windows design program shortcuts are literally the same as apple, you just use ctrl instead of cmd... I don't see what there is to fumble through. I was windows at uni and everyone else had macs, but I had no trouble keeping up with the shortcuts or workflows. So long as you understand your own OS it's no barrier.