You assume they don't already have a job and we're just looking for other opportunities. Not everyone is unemployed before they apply for other jobs. If anything that is a good time to look as it gives you stronger position to negotiate from.

Senior backend engineering definitely doesn’t see 99% windows adoption rate.

Its posted in a humor sub soooo no

Not IT, but my dad said they lost a chemical engineering hire over this once, like 25 years ago.

We had a new joiner quit on his first day because of this. Didn't even get to eat the burrito he ordered :( So it definitely happens.

To be fair they tried posting it on the Linux community on .ml and there were so many upvotes and positive feedback that it crashed the server. So they had to post it again somewhere more balanced to limit the impact.

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do, which is send and receive email.

The sender is not expressing privacy concerns, they’re expressing functionality / utility concerns.

It's tagged "Inbox", it looks like this is the recruiter's POV.

Personally I also would not quit/back out just from that, but “it’s not my machine” misses the point, IMO. It’s a device I’m expected to use ~40 hours a week. Windows fucking sucks. Using that trash for half of my waking hours sucks. Been there, done that, I hope to hell I never have to again.

Imagine applying for a job as a backend engineer and not knowing, based on the job posting/qualifications needed that they were a Windows shop.

Or just imagine generating this fake Gmail in Gemini or ChatGPT and posting it to farm the rage.

You have a lot more negotiating power once they give you an offer because of the sunk cost.

Are you talking to the employer or the applicant, because it works both ways?

Dude, that's like hiring a truck driver and telling him his lorry will be pulled by 4 horses.

"Minor" inconvenience is not having a coffee machine in the dining room, it's nothing like the culture of incompetence that permeates organization that are that severely vendor-locked.

If you've currently got a decent job, then you can afford to be suuuuper picky.

I think this person actually wants to run linux, but they are using Mac as a test case.

They mentioned "install an alternative operating system" - which on hardware sold for Windows very much implies Linux.

But if Linux is a no, and even macos is a no - which is from a "big proper company" with support agreements and everything - then the company is obviously a lost cause who are set on windows for life for all time.

Lmao.

,we have to submit tickets to run software because everything is installed through random .exes.

You have to do that because your IT department doesn't trust you. There's no difference in danger between a dev with system access installing an exe or a DMG.

You have to install extra crap to get the terminal to work like unix and I always had to fight with it to install things. Not worth the time. Maybe if you don't need a terminal though?

Mac has a Unix-like command line, but is otherwise shitty to use.