I don't have the luxury of turning down jobs for windows, but I do draw the line at using it on my own systems. They want me to use it, they have to provide the hardware.

[–] holymachinery91@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Google products are acceptible though? 🤨

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

That's the recipient using gmail, I think. It shows the inbox tag.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This reads as not only privileged and out of touch, but you couldn't tell from the job requirements and interviews that it was a Windows shop?

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What makes you assume it's a Windows shop?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The words and the particular order they're in.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I really don't see which part of "senior backend engineer" suggests a Windows shop to you. Devin is the internal IT support person of the company.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

IT uses windows exclusively = it's a Windows shop. "Senior backend engineer" tells us nothing, but the skills required to work for Devin in an exclusively windows environment would have been obvious.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

"Senior backend engineer" tells us it's likely backend software development, which is mostly platform agnostic. NodeJS, PHP, Python or whatever language you want to write your backend in can be developed on any OS. Even C#, unless you insist on specific versions.
The limitation to Windows as a developer OS was likely not communicated in the job advert or during the interview process and was only revealed when the developer machine was requested.
Going purely on phrasing, Devin seems to be head of IT. So this may be his call to make, but this will alienate some candidates, as we can see.
Software development on Windows is a uniquely frustrating experience. Nowadays it can mostly be sidestepped with WSL, but that still leaves you "using" an OS that you will have to fight frequently.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ah, okay. I wasn't thinking of the job title in terms of software development, I was thinking in terms of backend infrastructure. That's my own career bias showing. I still think the post comes off as privileged as IDEs a mostly OS agnostic. The biggest hurdle is the environment that's being developed for, which I still maintain OP should have been able to sus out during the application and interview process.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I also wouldn’t take a job that required using Windows. Yuck!

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