Pssh… This guy is chump change, maybe a senior engineer at best. You can tell by his footwear. The really highly paid engineers have Crocs with socks, if any footwear at all. 😆
If i see a man walking around in my office with a grey wizard beard and barefoot, I will auto assume it’s the senior developer and not a homeless dude.
At my last job we had to visit the company financial office to work on their expensing software and the receptionist actually called security because they thought our lead developer was a homeless person who got into the building.
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The really highly paid engineers don’t show up to meetings, they call in via zoom from their home.
I used to wear flip flops to the office quite often, back when I went to the office.
CROCS!? Nah, cheap flip flops he bought 6 years ago with the sole practically worn down to solid sheets of plastic.
I’ve actually seen this go the other way before.
I met this dude from Serbia, I can’t remember his name, but he was the friendliest guy you’d ever meet, and was probably about 7 foot tall.
One day our infra team was having an issue with a custom Spark cluster, and he was brought in to help. He came in a full suit that looked tailor made, like he’d just walked off the set of Suits, a suited Galdalf in a room of hobbits dressed in t-shirts around a foot or two smaller than him. He was in the room for two hours, and whatever he installed or ran for everything up and running again, with some extra time to help with some other tweaks.
He worked near my desk, so I asked him if he wanted to come for lunch. He declined because he was busy, so I asked if he wanted me to grab him something. His response “…Cherry Coke”. Once he’d finished, he came over to us, and offered to take us out for food. He paid for everything, including a drink at a nearby whiskey bar he apparently goes to often. I asked him why he wore a suit, and his response was “I’m uncomfortable wearing loose clothes, and I like layered clothing that fits to my frame, so I always wear suits when I need to be comfortable”. In many ways, for someone his size, I guess it made sense.
I miss him sometimes, because he’d always say “hello my British friend” every time he saw me nearby, even though we both lived in Britain, and he definitely knew my name. If I had to guess, the dude probably had a solid mil in stock, and was getting paid a solid £150k a year + more stock. He was definitely rich, because he could afford an apartment in central London near the office. Dude worked probably 60-80 hours a week though, and if asked he was on a plane to the US, India, wherever someone needed a freakishly tall suited guy to fix a data problem.
There’s an interesting cultural difference that I’ve observed. My grandpa was a senior engineer and he was proud to dress immaculately. He went to work in a suit and he never wore less than business casual even when going to the beach. I don’t think he owned any shirt that wasn’t a button-up long-sleeve. I’m an engineer (with a different specialty) and I only wear a suit to job interviews. Generally when I’m at work I’m in jeans and a short-sleeved shirt.
I wonder if it’s a matter of generations or countries or both. When and where my grandpa was young, a suit was very expensive and hierarchies were rigid.
I’m an engineer (with a different specialty) and I only wear a suit to job interviews.
I’m in a position that does interviews for software engineering. In my entire time working in this field I’ve seen one person wear a suit to an interview. It made them stand out all right, but not in a good way. We all wondered wtf was wrong with that guy after the interview.
Most I’ll do for an interview is jeans and dress shoes nowadays. And to be honest, I usually dont bother with the dress shoes.
I only did the suit thing the first few years after college
My best t-shirt and best chinos is most you’ll get from me at a job interview. Why would I dress differently than I will on the job?
Im not in the US and here most IT people wear casual. The exception is those in fintech which usually have a more formal dresscode. Im always wearing comfy clothes like cargos and a hoodie… And really i couldnt care less if someone at work didnt like what i wear. Im not there to look pretty for them, im there to make stuff work better and make the company more monkey.
Adam sandler looks a bit tired these days
I was going to say Ben Affleck.
I’m literally wondering which one it is. Looks more like Sandler, but not fat enough.
This is Adam Sandler right? The other comments have me confused
He should be removed from his position as Prime Minister.
He’s 58 years old, and isn’t known for his commitment to fitness. He looks pretty good for his age.
He’s dressing much nicer than he used to. At least his clothes fit. He used up wear basketball shorts and giant t shirts everywhere
Adam Sandler looks great for his age.
Someone who knows he has job security
In my experience working in a tech company, seeing someone not dressed like that is the oddity. You know they’re from marketing or finance when you see them.
Also applies to software developers.
Edit before send: just realised you wrote “developers” not “engineers”. (What is the difference?)
I think this mostly applies to software engineers, rather than “regular” engineers. On the topic, am I the only one who thinks people should specify “software”, not just say engineer?
I may be biased, but when someone just answers “engineer” I assume they mean of the “physical” variety (mechanical, civil, structural, chemical, etc), not software.
I mean, I don’t really know how we’re defining an engineer these days, we don’t all work with engines, so I suppose that’s out the window. Just don’t know where we’re drawing the line.
An accountant does problem solving, and takes inputs and outputs to do calculations. Are we calling them money engineers now?
This genuinely confuses me haha
Engineer is a protected title in my country, so most software developers are not legally engineers here. Although in usage the term is often interchanged with “developer” in terms of software.
Okay, I am the highest paid senior in my company, how should I look up?
You should connect remotely from a country with a better climate, preferably with a beach bar as the background.
If complimented on the background order a cocktail while staring at the camera to prove it’s an actual beach bar and that you can
Regardless of whatever else you do, you should always wear the most comfortable shoes you can find.
I can hear my ex wife screaming as I type this: Sandals with socks are peak comfort.
I once worked on a company that made IT Security products and was located close to a major technical university.
The guys that used to come in very much with that look (though it was sandals and white socks as footware) were all in their 60s, who worked both at that uni and had a side-gig in that company doing programming work in mainframes.
life goals
Hey! It’s me!
Adam Sandler?
Ha! No. Senior engineer showing up to meetings looking like a bum who just rolled out of bed (because I did).
He has some max Payne 3 vibe
There’s a running joke in my business. The messier / longer my beard is, the busier IT is.
I wear probably more office csual, collared shirt and some straight trousers/ jeans. But I do it for myself because it’s comfortable. When it gets hot I’m wearing shorts. But throughout the year a nice long sleeved top or a shirt. But it’s stuff I wear day to day anyway.
