Job hunting dress code

So far I've encountered four companies during my job search that had a decent attitude towards dress:

One said it was okay to dress business casual when I asked while scheduling the interview (East Coast).

Another advertised in its recruitment e-mail an environment where sandals are accepted on the job (Great Lakes area).

Another made no mention of dress but called me back after dressing business casual to the interview (East Coast).

The last said to dress casually or even wear jeans in the pre-interview details e-mail (West Coast).

Down with suits and ties. Join the revolution.

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BubbaGump
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I'd expect people to wear a casual tie, or at least very acceptable business casual (no jeans or sandals). Excessive jewlry or shirts with slogans should be avoided. A suit is definitely not needed, and may even be a negative for an engineer.

You should dress well enough in the interview that you could shake hands with the various department heads, or even the CEO. That doesn't mean you need to dress as formally as them, but rather that you don't want to be embarassed when you stand next to them.

Once you get the job, you can scale down to whatever the others at your level are wearing. Jeans are normally fine once you make it through all the interviews.

Eric

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Eric

It's OK to wear sandals to the interview if it's in Bangalore, Bombay or Hyderabad. If in Islamabad, wear your pajamas. You can also wear sandals in North America if you can walk on water.

Didn't you ask any if you could wear a dress?

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Mark

That's pretty good, since I can't remember when I've encountered a posting from you in this newgsgroup that actually had to do with embedded systems! (it may have happened, but I see many more job related posts from you than anything related to the actual newsgroup topic!)

You seem obsessed with headhunters and looking for a job. Why don't you take these irrelevant threads to a newsgroup dealing with employment please?

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Patrick Klos

It's his way of rationalising why he _still_ can't find a job. It makes him feel better to think it has more to do with the 'corporate suit' mentality and less to do with the fact that he doesn't have the technical and/or social skills to secure an engineering position.

It's even more telling that the headhunters have failed to find him a job, and from what I can tell, won't touch him with a 10-foot clown pole either - and who said headhunters are totally clueless!?! ;)

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Mark McDougall

Hey Bubba,

Do you like Indian food?

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Mark McDougall

Even though this is probably good advice, it is besides the point.

I strongly doubt if BubbaGump would be embarrased by a greater-than relation in the formality of dress.

The point is that BubbaGump wants to join a group, in the shape of a dissident. The expected natural reaction for any group is not to embrace the dissident. One cannot revolt if one isn't a member of the to-be-revolting group.

So the first thing to do, would be to take the shape of a member of the group, and then to join the group. The second thing is forming a rebellion and planning a revolt. As any revolution, it won't come easily.

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Boudewijn Dijkstra

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