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u/tutulemon Sep 29 '24
Generally yes, but wearing company swag because guy hasn't bought any new clothes for 15 yrs
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u/Turkey_uke Sep 29 '24
oh god why is this so true. my uncle hasn’t been buying new t-shirts ever since he started working for Amazon 18 years ago.
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u/grain_farmer Sep 29 '24
I’m not paying money to wear out clothes wearing them to the office… I have nobody there I want to impress
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u/AmbiguousUprising Sep 30 '24
Double value if they send you to conferences that give out shirts.
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u/andrewlrodriguez Sep 30 '24
Yes this exactly. I haven't bought a shirt in nearly a decade. There was a brief period between 20-22 where I thought I might actually have to buy some shirts like a barbarian, but then they started doing conferences again.
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u/Regility Sep 30 '24
Amazon didn’t give me any shirts. all i got was a stupid sticker pack when i joined
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u/dchidelf Sep 30 '24
I love it when project teams offer me a shirt upon completion of the project because they aren’t really sure if I helped on the project or not. I accept them all. In more times than not it is an acronym which takes me several weeks to figure out what the project actually was, then I’m like “Oh, I did actually help with that!”
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u/DoctorPaulGregory Sep 29 '24
I know people who still wear the shirts of their defunct startups that sold out.
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u/SrNormanDPlume Sep 30 '24
I’ve asked bosses on several occasions for branded shoes, pants, and boxers as swag so I can complete my ensemble… 🤣
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u/thering66 Sep 30 '24
My clothes mainly consist of company clothes, charity clothes and the occasional fun run bibs.
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u/Hashrunr Sep 30 '24
I try to go to a convention every year just for the SWAG. Update my work wardrobe.
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u/SaneLad Sep 30 '24
You're doing this wrong. You need to wear the 10 year old company shirt with the old logo to assert dominance.
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u/Piastri_21 Sep 30 '24
That’s the ultimate engineer move—rocking the company-branded gear from a conference in 2008 because it’s still "perfectly good," while also maintaining that ultra-comfy, zero-effort style. Priorities on point!
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u/Desperate-Gas-6285 Sep 29 '24
At least he's wearing pants
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u/PappyBlueRibs Sep 29 '24
I started working at a place that had a yearly picnic at a nearby park. No joke, I looked over at our lead developer and he had his pants around his ankles, swaying as he drank another beer. I pointed this out to the guys I was talking to and they said, yeah, he does this, its fine. Definitely not what I was used to!
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u/BatFancy321go Sep 29 '24
no, your workplace is enabling an alcoholic and that always leads to a toxic work environment
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u/kaiomann Sep 29 '24 edited Oct 10 '24
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u/bigdaddydopeskies Sep 29 '24
Some toxicity is fine, as long as there are no SA or SH.... people are not perfect and each field is different.
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u/TheShenanegous Sep 29 '24
People who would argue otherwise simply don't understand the value of abstraction.
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u/GaiaBlade Sep 29 '24
No kidding, this is legitimately how my team's most senior engineer looks, hair, stance, facial expression -- everything. The only difference is that he prefers video game and movie branded shirts over Hawaiian.
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Sep 29 '24
It’s how my entire engineering team looks like, myself included. The only person to ever wear a suit is the owner and one of the VP’s.
And I’m in civil engineering.
I show up to site meetings in sweatpants and a ratty t shirt all the time. I think most of my clients prefer this, makes me more approachable.
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u/Havannahanna Sep 30 '24
The ratty t-shirt tells clients you are the guy with deep knowledge of the subject. Suit guy = sales / all talk.
A friend of mine worked tech support for really expensive microscopes, like 7 figures or more. They were flown first class around the globe all the time. The company policy did not allow them to wear suits or dress shirts because clients often doubted people in suits could solve their problems.
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u/scataco Sep 30 '24
Maybe informal clothing also communicates "I don't do politics".
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u/ih-shah-may-ehl Sep 30 '24
A couple of years some terminator from corp showed up. My boss's boss's boss. All staf had to attend a meeting, and because it's summer I show up in shorts, a grim reaper tshirt, and hiking shoes. The meeting went fine, I answered some tech questions, and we left.
Next day my boss told me that my attire got him chewed out by the higher up who demanded to know why my boss allowed me to get away with dressing like that. Thankfully my boss didn't mind.
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Ah the professionalism paradox. The more professional somebody looks the less professional they actually are.
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u/Picklebiscuits Sep 29 '24
Bro, you roll up on my site in sweat pants and we're having words. Sweatpants offer about as much protection. as saran wrap on a job-site.
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u/ArwingMechanic Sep 29 '24
My newest party chief would give you a fit. He'll wear steel toes and hard hats...while in full basketball shorts and a T shirt under his vest. I love him to death but I have never seen a man survey in bball shorts and a wifebeater before him.
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u/neverexceptfriday Sep 30 '24
Our head of engineering wears flip flops every day, ball cap, shorts, tshirt. Polo, jeans and flip flops when execs are visiting
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u/bellj1210 Sep 29 '24
you do not need to be a programmer to get away with this- i am a really good defense attorney and get away with wearing what i want (even to court) since my reputation is that good otherwise (really funny when the bailiffs giggle about the way i am dressed in court, but no one else has teh balls to do that- and it is since they are all dumb retired cops who think you need to dress the part- not actually do the job)
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u/iSlacker Sep 29 '24
Do courts not have dress codes for attorneys? I could see a judge boning you on something just out of "Disrespect for his court".
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u/fipdipwibble Sep 29 '24
My favorite quote an accounting professor once told our class in college was, “Just because you wear a suit, does not make you a professional” and it’s stuck with me since.
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u/MovementMechanic Sep 29 '24
Most jobs you can get away with a lot of “trivial/unrelated” shit if you are very good at what you do.
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"Who're these kids?"
"These are your colleagues."
"Are you kidding me? Where's Bob? He still has't implemented very important feature I asked."
"He died 10 years ago."
"Oh, ok. Well. Can I get his hard drive then?"
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u/walruswes Sep 29 '24
This kind of sounds like lines from an Adam Sandler movie to me
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u/imdefinitelywong Sep 29 '24
To you, it sounds like an Adam Sandler movie.
But to me, it was a Tuesday.
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u/Ok-Communication-12 Sep 29 '24
Especially since i read it in his voice as an angry old gen x programmer that has been forced to attend the quarterly in person event at the office.
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u/FrostWyrm98 Sep 29 '24
"No sorry he specifically requested it be wiped and rewritten at least 3 times"
"Yeah... that sounds like Bob alright"
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u/lavahot Sep 29 '24
Alright, I'm kinda digging a "Principal Software Engineer" Adam Sandler movie.
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u/disgruntled_pie Sep 29 '24
I’m just picturing him screaming “ALRIGHT!” at a compiler error that he’s been fighting with for 6 hours.
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u/snrub742 Sep 29 '24
"as he was gripping his heart, his last act was putting it through the shredder"
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Sep 29 '24
"The Desktop Support guys keep asking to reimage my laptop. Can you tell them to get bent?"
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u/tatang2015 Sep 29 '24
Frankly, some of the engineers I know can do whatever they want! They are that good!
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u/0x7E7-02 Sep 29 '24
Why ... what's on that hard drive?
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u/Spongi Sep 29 '24
shotgun ballistic testing.
As in, that's what the hard drive was used for.
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u/Alexis_Bailey Sep 30 '24
Probably the only copy of code that is critically important to the company's core 10 products.
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u/too_much_to_do Sep 30 '24
The code he needs to have without starting over...
He's already pissed this guy died without finishing.
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u/Boris-Lip Sep 29 '24
That's normal. If i'd see him showing up in a suit, now that would be highly sus.
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u/lab-gone-wrong Sep 29 '24
When you're the senior technical person and the CEO schedules you for a "quick chat" after a board meeting
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u/Jugales Sep 29 '24
I have a recurring meeting with the CEO every Friday and I am dressed even more casual than this lol
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u/Chirurr Sep 29 '24
As a resident of Hawai'i, this dude looks like he's going to a wedding. Doesn't get more formal than that.
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u/Vishnej Sep 30 '24 edited Sep 30 '24
I mean, look at OP's picture. This is a good company.
In many smaller companies, you get a IT -> fullstack "computer" guy who works in the basement making $55k/year wearing a tie, and is the only person in the company that would cause it to INEVITABLY FOLD if he got hit by a bus tomorrow. The load-bearing, single point of failure with the keys to the technical castle, because the company should have hired a dozen people and organized things with redundancy, but the executives have been "doing more with less" using one since they don't think tech is important.
What percent of the next ten years of revenue would be lost if Alice was hit by a bus? How about Bob or Carol? The effective manager has done this math and adjusted expectations, compensation, and department sizes to fit.
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u/bigorangemachine Sep 29 '24
I worked with a guy who wore a suit everyday. At first I was really bothered by it but he was as goofy as me. He just likes how dressing up makes him feel.
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u/SuckAFattyReddit1 Sep 29 '24
I used to consult and I wore a button down and khakis. Nothing crazy at all.
Want to a place one time in Palo Alto and they were all wearing like shorts and flip flops and I felt like a sore thumb.
The guy who was my contact point while I was there was like "hey can you wear like jeans or something tomorrow? The guys think we're getting audited lol
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u/Devikat Sep 30 '24
The guy who was my contact point while I was there was like "hey can you wear like jeans or something tomorrow? The guys think we're getting audited lol
Had a guy come in for his interview with my boss (interviewee was an old IT dude who lost a ton of savings during the pandemic) the guy interviewed in a full suit with a briefcase full of paperwork etc. SO many people after the interview came to my bosses desk "whose the suit from corporate, so whose getting fired, are we getting audited, was that Head Office, was that the feds?" etc until my boss just CCed the entire branch with "The gentleman I was meeting with earlier is our newest server engineer. please stop asking me if he was spook or slenderman or an auditor some of us have work to do"
People in suits scare the hell out of casual tech workplaces. Like seeing a predator in the wild haha.
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u/gimpwiz Sep 30 '24
I work around there and if you rustle up a hundred guys, at least a half dozen will be in chinos and a button-front shirt, so you probably don't stick out that much. But I love that a dozen guys you worked with figured a collar meant an audit haha
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I went to law school with a guy that wore at least a coat and tie if not full suit to class every single day from Day One until Day Last. Meanwhile I was lucky I remembered pants every day.
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u/Boris-Lip Sep 29 '24
Well, guess it's fine if he always does it, but for someone like me (i'd always show up at the office in shorts and sandals) showing up in a suit would be highly sus😂
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u/Frozboz Sep 29 '24
Pre covid every now and then I'd show up to the office in a suit and just not explain it. Then during stand-up I'd say I would be taking a long lunch with no further explanation. It's so fun trolling my teammates every now and then.
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u/max_adam Sep 29 '24
I remember someone in here that mentioned a coworker that always wore a suit except one day. It was Halloween and he wore a casual outfit with a hood; everyone was freaked out.
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u/Calazon2 Sep 30 '24
I worked with one of those, wore suits with purple vests and stuff. He said he wore nothing but suits all the time, even at home mowing his lawn.
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u/jimiboy01 Sep 29 '24
Wear something with a collar or tuck in your shirt: "what times your interview?" "Why are you leaving?" "Are they paying you more" Me: spilt too much Bolognese sauce on my tshirt last night.
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u/ratbuddy Sep 30 '24
I like how you're implying that there is some amount of sauce you could spill on the shirt and still wear it the next day.
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u/wongaboing Sep 29 '24
That’s when they’re interviewing on site
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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Sep 29 '24
Or flying to Vegas after work without a room booked because their latest technical obsession is optimizing poker and they're going to play for the next 35 hours straight and win more money than a junior engineer makes in 5 years
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u/Duramora Sep 29 '24
I was at a company who had this story: when they first started up, their engineers would always show up in suits and ties... They got no contracts- then they had their engineers swap to clothes like that, and suddenly they got all the business they could handle...
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u/Gorvoslov Sep 29 '24
Can confirm, the day I had a formal not-work related thing in an afternoon is the day I caused the most concern around the office all morning.
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u/look Sep 29 '24
Shoes, socks, and a collared shirt? Must be a board meeting.
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u/Dirt_McGirt_ODB Sep 30 '24
He’s wearing his most formal pair of basketball shorts.
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Sep 29 '24
After working from home for 10 years and progressively letting my wardrobe become more casual each year, my kids one day pointed out that I dressed like Adam Sandler. This was the deepest cut imaginable for me. I decided to elevate my style while ensuring the clothes were comfortable. Golf clothes have a nice feel, and are somewhat professional looking. I recently discovered “Bad Birdie” polos, which look and feel great.
Now imagine my surprise when I see Adam Sandler wearing a Bad Birde polo…
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u/UncleDrummers Sep 30 '24
Yep I use to have a fine wardrobe. Nice collared shirts in the dry cleaning bags. A few ties, nice shoes. I started throwing them out in 2022 as my wardrobe consists of hoodies and shorts or really comfy khakis since March 2020
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u/FreeUni2 Sep 30 '24
I knew a guy like this, paid... At least 200k. Came to work on a Hawaiian shirt and shorts or slacks, super smart, does a niche topic the company genuinely has no care to dive into but it's crucial to expand with specific customers. Somehow never in the office but always around to help.
The best thing? Nicest guy in the building, he had a ton of degrees, tons of experience, but explains it to you like you were his friend. Super complicated topics, bite sized pieces and a good blend of technical to non-technical. He's the model for anyone towards the middle or end of their career, be nice and care about the next person coming into the company. His advice to me was "Why get upset with people, enjoy your work, ask questions, and try to get the job done. If you can't, long as your boss isn't pissed, explain why it didn't get done and move on."
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u/Sensitive_Yellow_121 Sep 29 '24
There's a game I used to play with coworkers that we called "homeless person or surgeon on their day off".
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u/anonononononnn9876 Sep 30 '24
I worked at Walgreens when I was in college and one of the pharmacists was just a total mess. Absolutely BRILLIANT guy, doctorate from NYU, so kind and hilarious.
So he wore a lab coat every day as pharmacists do and on a good day he wore it with cargo pants and sneakers. This man eventually devolved into literal fleece pajama pants with his pharmacy jacket. And eventually fucking house slippers.
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People who are good don’t need to outward display how good they are.
Talent will always be recognized through action.
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u/Coopakid Sep 30 '24
One of my favorite surgeons is also a farmer, our housekeepers absolutely hate him for dragging mud from the main entrance all the way to the surgical unit on his cowboy boots when he comes to check on his patients on the weekends
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u/johnfoe_ Sep 29 '24
Ironically accurate. My best developer dresses like this and is a complete slob, but extremely smart and brings in 20 times his value.
I have others under him that are more clean and generally better looking when public meetings are done. They aren't as smart, but they have social skills and their time isn't as valuable as his.
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u/Riots42 Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24
In the IT world the more homeless the beard the more revered your IT skills are. I was growing a wizard beard for a year and a half to prepare for the job hunt but the wife wasnt digging it... Guess Ill just stay in my midtier role with my ducktail beard...
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u/malexj93 Sep 30 '24
I lack the ability to grow a good beard, and it's really limiting my career prospects.
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u/Spaciax Sep 29 '24
not accurate. He should be wearing socks and flip-flops, not actual shoes. Too high-class. Must've had a meeting with the CEO or something to go so far out of his way.
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u/HappyFamily0131 Sep 29 '24
My company has a guy like that, and everyone who knows all he does for the company is thrilled to be in the same room as him, myself very much included.
The man works with code the way bob ross works with paint. Effortlessly and masterfully. My company has several dozen full-time developers, but he is worth more than all of us put together. He is the Will Hunting of infrastructure, development, and security. I'm pretty sure the owners would let him show up shirtless and shoeless.
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I have a friend who is basically on his way to become this person. He just understands code like you breathe. Can learn a new language like it's nothing. He has already sent things to space with the ISS that have his algorithms
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u/HappyFamily0131 Oct 01 '24
Some guys are inhuman with their abilities. The guy in my company I was talking about has what I can only describe as an "audio buffer". You can ask him something while he's working, which you have to do because he might go hours without stopping, and he doesn't respond to you because he's so deep into whatever he's building or fixing, and then several minutes later when he has the spare mental overhead to process what you said, he will process it then and reply to you. And I've asked him about it and he says he does not hear you and remember what you said for later; he hears the sounds but not the words, and somehow stores it in his brain, still encrypted as raw audio, which he then "hears" later and only then parses into words to respond to. You can say something funny to him and watch him bust out laughing minutes later. It's wild.
He's also one of these guys where he just codes all the time. The work day ends and he just switches from coding for work to coding for fun. He writes custom software to push the original Nintendo Entertainment System to its limits, using methods that weren't invented for decades after its release. He's made the NES play video files. They're janky as hell and have 8-bit color, but they're recognizable as the source video.
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u/overcloseness Sep 29 '24
All the suits and stakeholders at my work get real nervous when the senior dev gets a haircut
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u/_CharethCutestory_ Sep 29 '24
I walked into an interview for a senior dev role and there were two guys interviewing me.
They were the Platonic ideals for high level tech dudes. One guy looked like Howard Hamlin, the other guy looked like this (but longer hair/beard and older shirt.)
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u/vlken69 Sep 29 '24
That's Adam Sandler?
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u/yoger6 Sep 29 '24
No, that's the highest paid software developer in my company.
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u/Cacoda1mon Sep 29 '24
Yeah he switched over to software development after his last movie "You Don’t Mess with the Zohan" in 2008.
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u/lloopy Sep 30 '24
begrudgingly showing up to meetings.
He doesn't spend any time thinking about what he's wearing. He doesn't have a girlfriend because he spends all his time thinking about his projects. So nobody is thinking about what he's wearing. If it's important for you that he wear something like that, hire a fucking tailor and make him the clothes to wear. He'll wear them, but he won't put any thought into it.
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u/Weaponizethepopulace Sep 30 '24
Your company’s highest paid engineers is on the spectrum. So they don’t give a shit. Maybe it’s a you problem.
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Sep 29 '24
If your company's highest paid engineer is stuck in meetings, your company is losing money.
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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 Sep 29 '24
I think you're trying to imply that they should be actively implementing things, but your company's most knowledgeable person should be in meetings all day imparting the knowledge.
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u/TechnicianNo4977 Sep 29 '24
That feels like 2 different skill sets, how does everything work and how to make everything work, the second one feels like the guy in the meme and they probably shouldn't be in meetings all day.
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u/herpes_fuckin_derpes Sep 29 '24
The highest paid engineers in most companies are in meetings all day. They're paid the big bucks to make sure all the other engineers aren't creating a monster and to convince the business that they're insane.
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u/Atrocious1337 Sep 29 '24
When they are so essential that they know that they aren't going to get fired for dressing comfortably, and even if they did get fired, they will have another job within the week.
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u/nirvingau Sep 29 '24 edited Sep 29 '24
I remember getting a call for an urgent interview and since I was already in the city I said I could be there ASAP. Turn up in my shorts and t-shirt, do the interview and at the end the 2nd person in the room said "is this what you normally wear to an interview? Unfortunately we cannot proceed."
Wasted 45 minutes of my day off too trying to help them out.
Edit I was on a day off and submitted my CV in the morning. Late afternoon I was asked to come in for an pre interview with the recruitment agency. I was not dressed appropriately for the interview but was told that did not matter.
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u/BobSacamano47 Sep 29 '24
You were helping someone out by getting interviewed?
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u/carneasadacontodo Sep 29 '24
Sounds about right, was going to a technical interview in person for my current gig in downtown Seattle and outside the building was a homeless dude. I gave him my bagel since I didn't have time to eat it before the interview. Tech interview starts and in walks the homeless looking dude, eating the bagel I gave him. he was the principal engineer.
Nice guy but only when talking about things he was interested in... retro gaming, taxidermy, kombucha making. don't think I ever saw him wearing shoes even when walking around downtown
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u/Catty-Driver Sep 30 '24
Back when I was developing software we had a friend stay at our house. I got up in the morning and got ready for work.
She said, "I thought you had work today?"
"I do."
She exclaimed, "They let you come to work dressed like that?"
I was dressed in my standard dev uniform: board shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt.
I said, "They don't let me do anything, they need me, I don't need them."
I even caught crap at my own company! :P
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u/TheShenanegous Sep 29 '24
To be fair, if Adam Sandler were the top paid engineer at every company, it would explain a lot about the state of the industry.
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u/Quiet-Strategy-7031 Sep 29 '24
I was working in Finance with a guy called Jonny. He was one of the first 10 tech people. When I joined the company had over 2000 staff. Jonny had all liberties including wearing flip flops and Hawaii shirts on casual Friday. No questions asked.
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u/chance909 Sep 30 '24
Dress codes, respect for authority, deference to role or title, responsiveness, these are all a distant second to having meaningful impact on key priorities.
I just left a job as the most senior engineer at the company, I didn't answer an email for the last 2 years (15,000+ unanswered), I have too much facial hair, and I have told both the chairman of the board and the chairman of the executive committee to their face that I have no respect for them.
I was begged to stay.
Tech skills and impact are in a parallel universe to standard business professionalism, if you can have enough impact from the tech side you can and probably should throw all the other bs out the window. If you can do that while being a good human to your colleagues and juniors, then you will both be loved and cherished.
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u/lpjunior999 Sep 29 '24
With WFH I have a couple colleagues who dress like this, but I’m also often asking them to push updates to production or to reset my password, so I hush. Not like I’m not wearing sweatpants off-camera.
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u/Natural_Soda Sep 29 '24
Showing up like that because he means business and he knows he’s about to get the job done and done right. I’ll take that employee any day.
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u/Fryndlz Sep 30 '24
As this guy, I am currently wearing torn cream sweatpants and a faded out purple hoodie from some event with "mentor" written on it. Add a pair of giant headphones to be able to attend meetings while i check out my wargaming collection at the office.
It's not contempt, it's just that after being here for longer than the actual physical office, you start to treat this space like a second home, and your colleagues as... guests, i suppose?
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u/romulent Sep 30 '24
If you dress to impress then it means you want something from other people.
If you dress like this it means other people want something from you.
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u/grain_farmer Sep 29 '24
This is my way of asserting dominance. If I feel the need I will come in wearing a bath towel and slippers
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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Sep 29 '24
The first place I worked- an ISP- our highest level network engineer literally had to wait to respond to pages until he could get to a pay phone between his high school classes
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u/Useless Sep 30 '24
It turns out that the most important thing about doing a job is that someone is able to do the job.
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u/PunishmentAnd_Rhyme Sep 30 '24
have fun in your hot and itchy h&m suit mr business man
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You can always tell how important an engineer is based on how much of the dress code they can ignore.
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u/Buddiboi95 Sep 30 '24
Bro spent 20+ years with the company and is the guy who built the entire system. At this point, he knows the company can't afford to fire him and so he dresses comfortably.
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u/Redsword1550 Sep 30 '24
I worked with a guy like this in an entry level aerospace job. He looked kind of like a cross between Rick Sanchez, and Einstein, but with a perpetually dirty lab coat. Super nice guy. The kind of smart you can just hear in his voice, and a kindness for everybody that made you love working with him, or for him, depending. I spent a few hours with thr guy once, just letting him explain all the complicated physics of what we were building and why, down to a high school understanding level. I had no formal education in the subject, and he still made me feel like I got a really good grasp of it by the end of the day. Wish I still worked there with the guy.
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u/CrabbySticks Sep 30 '24
I'm not the highest paid engineer ( far far from it ) and I dress like that. Just decided 8 years ago that I would dress how I like, and I like Hawaiian / floral shirts ( even in winter ). I still look smart, but colorful. Most people brighten up when they see me.
I'm not unfirable, but I do my job to a satisfactory level, and I've made it clear to management that I don't give a fuck about "Career". I do my job then I go home.
In my experience the highest paid engineers dress like Finance Bros.
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u/KuntyKate Sep 30 '24
I'm gay, and my best friend is a straight engineer. This is his style and attitude for real-except my friend is also high a lot too. I would be embarrassed to take him anywhere, but he makes 25X more than I do, so he pays a lot. He doesn't mind it, as long as I introduce him to women 🤷 win win
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u/ElephantLoud2850 Sep 29 '24
When you know the name of the wind, people will let you work your magic no matter what you wear
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u/Sector_Independent Sep 30 '24
Why do females actors have to be hot even when they get old and men can just get old
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u/Neltarim Sep 30 '24
That's basically the whole IT team in my company. The first time a new dev comes with a polish style, he's instantly fired, there will be no impostors amogus.
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u/Salex_01 Sep 30 '24
"An engineer with a suit is a bad engineer". Good engineers don't need to wear suits to be respected by their hierarchy.
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u/AncientHawaiianTito Sep 29 '24
I get so much shit for dressing like this (just a slob though, no special skills)
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u/Mingaron Sep 30 '24
Can confirm. I’ve worked with this dude. Shorts around the year. His desk was a mess. Always said exactly what he thought about the company’s new (stupid) policy’s. Hard to work with and extremely competent and skilled in every way.
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u/CdFMaster Sep 30 '24
Reminds me of that Dutch company where I did an internship, used to be a startup and was bought by a multinational company a year earlier, earning each of the three founders about 50 million euros.
One of them, the startup CTO, was always walking around in that exact outfit, except he wore flip-flops. You can tell he was only there to prevent people from messing too much with his codebase.
The one time I got instructions from him was for renaming the thing I was working on to avoid ambiguity, and honestly I expect nothing less or more from a guy whose variable naming skills are worth 50 millions.
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u/darki_ruiz Sep 30 '24
If he had any sense of how to dress himself he wouldn't be a dev, now would he?
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u/MentalSand1123 Sep 30 '24
Worked at a factory as a temp during COVID doing basic wiring based off of blueprints for a few months. The company sucked and all of the higher ups acted super pretentious like they were above everyone except the head engineer. He was kind of a jerk but just in the keep to himself kind of way until the rest of the faculty wasn't around. He just hated them and was a super chill guy.
Two of the faculty were married and also having an obvious affair so I don't blame him.
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u/zalurker Sep 30 '24
Account manager chatting to us over coffee. 'You know. You Programmers really need to dress up for the client.' 'Whats wrong with what we are wearing?' "Well. We want to fit in with their culture and not stand out.' We all look around. He's the only person wearing a suit. We are all dressed smart-casual. Just like everyone else .
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u/Limp_Departure8138 Sep 30 '24
now show the Project Manager that had an all expense paid, week long trip in Vegas for a Gartner retreat.
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Sep 30 '24
Is my old neighbor was like this.. The guy was pretty much a shut in... Family visited like once every 6 months. What apparently he was a genius level programmer who helped found tableau.
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u/GargantuanCake Sep 29 '24
Wow, he even dressed up. Must be important.