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by commercialnix 668 days ago
The fresh grads in question came from reputable UC schools. Given the degrees they were (or almost were) holding, and where they came from, they are expected to at least give a shit about Unix-like systems, if not actually have a clue about them.

We are a business, not a charity daycare, we do have to actually *judge* employees we hire on their merits.

> number of startups do use Mac

Modern day macOS is "fine" for the people who will be doing everything they do in Google Chrome.

The organizations I tend to frequent are of very high talent density, hence a software developer who forthcomingly prefers macOS and is clueless about *software* (ie operating systems) in a fundamental way is looked down on (and rightly so) by the higher echelon of talent.