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> Don't wear a suit I guess this varies from country to country but personally I think that's bad advice. In my experience it's better to be over dressed than
by Lio 8y ago
> Don't wear a suit
I guess this varies from country to country but personally I think that's bad advice.
In my experience it's better to be over dressed than underdressed.
I'm in my 40s and have never worked anywhere that had a formal dress code, it's always been wear what you want unless you're talking to a customer. I pretty much expect most dev jobs to be jeans and t-shirts.
I'm a contractor now so do quite a few interviews and a suit to an interview is an easy choice.
You look like you give a shit when you turn up and you can make a joke with the interviewer about being overdressed to break the ice.
Much harder to do it the other way round.
- throwaway2016a 8y agoConversely I was hired at a search company (no not that one... or that one) when I got out of college and wore a suite to an interview. Come to find out later the suite almost sunk me because they felt I might not fit with the culture. Fortunately my code stood on it's own. Today I routinely wear a nice button up shirt and designer jeans (the "cheap" $80 kind not the $500 ones) to work. Which is overdressed still but I feel it is a nice medium.' Occasionally I'll take in a Broadway play (when it travels to Boston) and I always wear a suite. Sure, half the people there will probably be in T-Shirts but I like dressing nice. 15 years ago they probably wouldn't have even let you in without a suite. Edit: As one might gather from my lats comment. I'm North East USA (New England). NE is very different culturally from any part of the country. We are closest to California but here suites are more common.