There are only a few females in SWE and most wear comfortable clothing: jean/tshirt or blouse/tennis shoes. I am one of them. Lately, our company merged program managers that face customers under the SWE umbrella. PM's have almost the same ratio of males and females. Almost all females dress up:heels, skirts, hair and nails did but the caliber of most is on the basic and sometimes, one or two looking trashy than classy: Tatas hanging out, short skirt, cowgirl boots, very bad makeup and long nails. Sighs. I love getting dressed up with full makeup when going out on the weekends, but am wayyy too lazy to do it everyday for work. What do you all like to wear to work? Makeup? Nails? If so, is there any other reason than liking it?
Sort of off topic but as a male engineer that wears jeans (or shorts) and t-shirt every day, I sort of think less of other engineers (no matter the gender) if they dress up regularly. It sorta feels like they're trying to compensate for the lack of skill by trying to look fancy.
In other words, insecure people are looking for hints (or make up something) of insecurity in other people to feel less insecure.
It's rather pathetic to judge somebody based on how they choose to dress.
I work in non engineering role and like to dress casually but smartly, don't wear heavy make up, get nails done once in a while, wear heels sometimes but mostly flats or sneakers....I feel no matter how you dress ultimately it's your work that speaks....I know people who have terrible dressing sense but are very well respected for their work and on the other end there are some people who look so presentable but lack substance
There is a female engineer on my team who dresses sexy at work. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand I do believe that people should basically be free to dress how they please. On the other when she comes to my office for 1:1 wearing a skirt that barely covers anything it's pretty distracting. She is a great engineer by the way, but I wonder if I should tell her to tone it down a little.
You should not. Would you tell a sexy dressed man to tone it down? Don't do it.
I would be WAY more likely to say it to a guy dressing inappropriately, eg wearing tank tops or something, because I wouldn't be as worried about getting #metoo'd Also for whatever reason acceptable dress code for men is just way more well defined than it is for women. It's much clearer to me what is or isn't considered acceptable. Not sure why that is, interesting question.
Honestly.... This question shows SWE in your company are not working hard enough that they care about dresses. In my team...we are so swamped..that we are happy to see a person just working..doesnt matter if a girl or boy ...as long as they are working..what they wear is not even important enough to be noticed.(unless they are awkwardly naked) I am mentioning this only cuz you mentioned SWE. We have both male and females coming in pyajamas at times. There are few people who are always dressed up too. But who cares? (PS: I am team lead..so I literally monitor their work..dont give shit about dress n stuff...I am myself busy coding too)
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Uh, Panasonic has a minimum dress code of business casual. No pajamas. The funny thing is that, although you are the team lead, you still know how your team dresses. So you are paying attention to more than just work. By your logic, sounds like team leads at Autodesk need more work. đ And like I said in my other response, this post has nothing to do with the amount of work, intellect, etc. I am asking other females what they like wear at work. It is a very simple question.
I used to wear dresses or skirts and light makeup. But some male coworkers gazing at my leg made me super uncomfortable.. now I only wear jeans..
Sighs. There's a reason that this question is for females and under women in tech. Just curious to see how female engineers at other companies dressed or thought about it. The question has nothing to do with insecurities, lack of work, amount of effort put in at work, and intellect. It has everything to do with what they like and the amount effort put into dressing up when we spend hours mostly behind a screen, sitting down. BTW, we do have a dress code, but not sure how much of it is enforced. Business casual at minimum. No flip flops, sandals (men) or even shorts (men). Even if we are in sunny socal. So yea, pajamas are out of the picture. đ
I am not sure why so many men were compelled to reply in a post addressed to Females. Patriarchy much ?
Here is a politically incorrect observation: There's a dress code for both men and women, but it's almost always some womelan who pushes the limits of the dress code, trying to sexualize herself. It may be sexist in the sense that we live in a society which encourages women to do this. That suggests that our society as a whole is setting different expectations for women and no doubt that's a cultural prejudice we've all absorbed, etc. But it is nevertheless women (some of them) who do this. You don't see men coming to work trying to sexualize themselves. Maybe sometimes you see gay men doing that, but generally the biases in our society encourage women, but not men, to present themselves this way. We can discuss why this is an unhealthy bias in our society but let's face that is a bias that at least some women have internalized.
I am a SWE and I really like to wear good dresses or skirt to work although nothing showy and no makeup. Work is the place I go everyday and a good dress gives me happiness so those are my reasons. But in my experience it doesnât leave good first impression that you are good at your work. Since you have seen all the male comments that came in your post, I donât need to explain you much on why so. Males have hard time digesting the fact that someone can dress up and work too. I have gotten weird comments for my dressing in the start like are you going to be meeting CEO today etc. But once these male in my team started seeing me everyday nicely dressed they stopped saying anything. So if you donât care on comments and people thinking then there is no problem.
If it happens once in a blue moon some might say that but if u dress up for work every day then that doesnât make sense.
Why it doesnât make sense ? I mean whatâs the problem in that. Why for Gods sake we canât leave it to the choice of a person how he/she want to dress up. Small minds think about all these things.
Dress in whatever way you think would make you the most productive comfortable at work as SWE
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