[autoexec]

> I think the point is that GP red flagging all MS shops, which is more or less just sorting companies by headcount

I wouldn't be surprised if many people find that smaller companies are more fun/interesting to work at, so even if this were only filtering out large companies checking for MS could be helpful.

[carlmr]

Then it's an overcomplicated company size check.

[lucketone]

Imagine small startup where ceo knows only windows and small startup where ceo uses linux.

Developer’s quality of life might differ.

[lazide]

It absolutely would. I can even tell you what type of laptop/dev equipment you’d likely get.

Hard to say what the actual office environment would end up like (plenty of toxic nerds out there), but I’ve worked for CEOs who were devs, and I even when they were terrible people, I never once hated the development part of the job.