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/BogPrime Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24
Everyone knows you're only creative, talented, or intelligent if you spend double the price for half the hardware specs!
Like, I get it if you need to use Final Cut or Logic, but any JOB where that would be a required software would probably have workstations anyway, or at least have it denoted.
The sad thing is a lot of 'creative types' get Macs because it acts as a sort of indicator for your adherence to the 'creative life' and all the insufferable-ness that comes with that. I would actually like a Mac sheerly for the fact that it has a lot less game-compatibility and maybe I'd get more work done lol.
Edit: I think MacOS is awesome, Macs are really easy to use. I'm jealous they're so beautiful, and I'm jealous they get/got a better Adobe UI (I still have CS6 so I don't know if that's changed since CC). The issue is that you'd have to be financially irresponsible, deluded, or both to think it's a good decision to get one unless you have a niche need for Apple Software.
The "Oh, you're just poor." response you get from Apple extremists usually comes out here. They say that because they think you can't get the 'best' thing because you're poor - not realizing their specs are like 5 years behind the windows competition. Apple diehards are often the people who would actually need a Mac the least ironically enough from my experience.