Originally Posted by
alcathiax
I know of several of my friends who have interviewed with Microsoft in Redmond WA in jeans and tees...all of whom were extended offers of employment.
Of course, the opposite can be true: I interviewed with them this past March in business attire and I did not receive an offer
At its start, at least, Apple reportedly refused to hire any candidate, no matter how skilled, who interviewed wearing a suit, because they wanted a different culture.
At a number of conferences I participate in, there is an unwritten dress code whereby the more technical one is, the more informal one's clothes. Slacks and polo shirt: business type. Jeans and polo shirt: business type with engineering skills. Jeans and t-shirt: engineering. T-shirt, shorts, barefoot: hard-core engineering.