Are those the people you want to hire for software development jobs though?

Honestly I would see that as a huge red flag. In western countries a used laptop costs almost nothing.

I don’t own a personal vehicle, and you would not believe the types of jobs that were simply inaccessible to me because of that.

They apparently couldn’t ask directly whether I owned a car, but the coded question is: “Do you have Reliable Transportation?” <wink wink> and that was a confusing question to me, at face value; I would reply with candor, “I take public transit!” which of course gave away my situation every time.