In extreme cases we can work it out but you should have something that makes up for the extra annoyance compared to 99% of applicants.
Probably not common, but certainly plausible. Not everyone wants to bring work home or have hobbies that are the same as their work.
Tells you they are an extremely competent smart worker that could be surprisingly helpful in ways we don't understand.
I'd love to learn from such a person.
I knew one software developer who basically spent all his free time outside hiking and camping and rarely did anything with a computer when not working. He was a good dev and very competent. Just after being cooped up inside on a computer all week he didn’t want to spend more time on one at home.
It’s not much of a stretch beyond that to simply not owning one.
I kinda assumed that most developers took a similar approach to me. Laptop because portable when you need it, hooked to large screens, nice keyboard, nice mouse/whatever. I don't know what having a desktop would really buy me. I do 99% of my work with the laptop docked but that remaining 1% it sure is handy to grab it and go.
If you are just making web apps, it does not matter, but I do data processing where having the headroom can make a big difference.
I do have the cheapest used laptop I could find for those moments when I might require portability.
In one instance for a data-oriented job interview I spun up a VM in the cloud because they linked a kaggle dataset for the at home test that was just a bit too big for my laptop to handle.
But to have nothing, no desktop, no laptop at all, is _odd_ for a developer. How did you get through school? If not school, then how is it a hobby-turned-profession without something to develop on?
The whole "no one should be denied access to a job" angle is weird too. What is the limit to accommodations?
Do you actually believe what you’re saying, or have you not thought it through?
stop advocating that we discriminate against them because you feel you need your hand held.