ZDNet tells job hunters to stop using Macs

Blame it on outsourcing. The Fourtune 500 companies now no longer know or care how their recruiting is done. All they care is that for less money than a fully staffed HR dept, their hiring managers now get pre-sorted resumes from Br assring. Those resumes that can be submitted that is. And if you try (and fail) to submit one from a Mac based browser, and then resort to contacting the email address (which looks like it goes to the hiring company) all you get back is a canned response asking you to submit through the web page. This isn't the internet we were promised...

Lets face it - the only reason why they cant cater for mac users is because they do not have the technology to do so. I am in Japan and I laugh every-time I see tons of TV advertisement for a site only to find a "Sorry - please use Windows" message. Making a site work on the mac is no big deal at all - these companies dont have skilled programmers,software engineers or QA and if you do a HTML validation on W3C, you will notice a ton of bugs too - amateurs.

They don't want mac users? Then we'll go somewhere else. Fuckem

Add Bestbuy and their reward program to the idiots that won't support Macs for printing the reward certificates. Ironic, because BestBuy.com sells Macs.

"Many coders live in their isolated little Microsoft world..." I would hardly call Microsoft's world either little or isolated...

I'm a developer and web standards evangelist writing code that works across browsers and operating systems. You can blame MS all you want and they deserve a big "Shame On You" for doing such a crappy job supporting cross browser standards. But, at the same time, if you think that web developers who do their work on a Mac are targeting Safari as the primary browser you are dead wrong. They're main concern is the largest market segment. That's not to say that they are doing anyless to promote web standards but when it comes time to pay the bills you can bet they are going to do the job the way its been spec'd for them. Bottom line - Sites that don't render correctly in any browser can be built on a Mac or a PC.

Hey TUAW folkss, did you know your system is doubling up on the comment confirmation emails?

Seems to me that Brassring customers are shooting themselves in the foot. According to this Cnet article - http://news.com.com/2100-1040-943519.html - Mac users are smarter than Windows users. So employers are likely shutting out well qualified candidates by using shoddy software.

Seems to me that Brassring customers are shooting themselves in the foot. According to this Cnet article - http://news.com.com/2100-1040-943519.html - Mac users are smarter than Windows users. So employers are likely shutting out well qualified candidates by using shoddy software.

This is a management issue. If management only wants it tested and working on Windows machines, that is all the programmers are going to work on. They won't fix mac issues if their managment doesn't want them working on it (at least most won't.) Blame the company, not the programmers.