re: Job Interview Dresscode Question

Suit

Looks like responses are divided

Be prepared to suit up. Have the tie in your coat pocket. Take the jacket off before the interview if it's clear it's unnecessary or against the culture.

If he told you specifically not to....then don't.

Wear a suit and bring a tie with you. Make a gametime decision once you're able to actually check out the space/see the reception.

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Call their bluff on the casual thing and go with a Hawaiian shirt and your best pair of khaki cutoff shorts with a straw hat.

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Flip flops too.

Chinos or other non-dress slacks, button up with sleeves rolled to still below the elbow, and casual driving loafers with no socks. Clean shaven.

"I can be formal, but I like to party"

Unless you show up in jeans and a plaid shirt, just know you'll be overdressed, but that's ok. I work in a really casual environment (software), and I have interviewed people who showed up in suits. Never thought anything of it. Wearing a suit to an interview is just something that's so engrained in etiquette that a lot of people will always do it no matter what. I wouldn't take it as "not following instructions," but that may be just me.

Bottom line, it's your interview so go with what will make you most comfortable with the impression that you will be giving. If wearing a suit when they said it's not necessary will stress you out, don't wear one. If you just don't feel right without one, then suit up.

jeans fa sho

show them you fit in