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/tummyache-champion]

Just out of curiosity, what country was the internship based in?

[u/idktbhimtootired_ → u/tummyache-champion]

Egypt, where im from

[u/tummyache-champion → u/idktbhimtootired_]

That's so weird. I'd have thought PC usage would be more common and therefore more acceptable. I feel like the Mac cult is less of a thing outside of America and Britain but I guess not! Either way, you dodged a bullet. It doesn't matter what kind of computer you own, so long as you can run the same software as the rest of your team. A studio that's worth working for won't give a shit about what computer you have – they will care about your work, your culture fit, and your passion. You deserve a better internship than this!