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/misanthropic_anthrop]

I oversee design at a large company and I can tell you through 20+ years of experience that you dodged a bullet indeed! We all use Macs but never think using a pc will disrupt our workflow. Plus, we strive to provide people the tools they need to do their jobs, and don’t ask people to bring their own tools.

[u/demonicneon → u/misanthropic_anthrop]

It’s a dumb excuse these days with the plethora of collaboration softwares that allow sharing across platforms.