How many of you wore a suit to your interview?

    I don't think you need a suit for a job interview, just so long as you dress smart in some form, I always wear a shirt and tie and smart trousers and my leather jacket over that.

    For a job in the games industry I don't think anyone would care too much, it's not like you're going to need to wear a smart uniform whilst sitting in front of a computer using photoshop or the like

    A simple rule: If the company you apply for lacks a dress code, don't wear a suit. It might not be a bad thing to wear one, but you might give the impression that you do not fit the corporate culture, just as KungFuSquirrel mentioned.

    Collar shirts, jackets, etc. are still normal for any office job. It essentially boils down to how much external interaction the office faces.

    Wore a shirt and tie to both of the interviews I’ve had (and got both , but I don’t think that counts as a suit – just looks like you made the effort.

    I know Argonaut Games used to not accept people who showed up in a full blown suit, but they were a bit weird towards the end of their run anyway.

    I wore a shirt and tie to my first interview, overheard the devs that worked there making fun of me, didn't get the job, so never again.

    Wore whatever I felt like for the rest of my interviews, got an offer on every single one except one.

    Look at like this: when your potential future boss comes out to greet you and he's got a 5 ft mohawk, you don't want to be the guy wearing a suit.

    When I go for interviews and stuff I ususally start off in a suit, then start dressing down to match the place.

    Its pretty easy to make it more casual, even taking the jacket off makes it much less formal.

    When I went to all my Uni interviews the first two I went in suits and it was sort of 50/50 split, so for the last few decided to go more casual and was the only one not in a suit

    thanks for the replies, all. I kinda figured it all depended on the job you were going for. The two interviews that got me both my jobs I dressed very casual (blue jeans and a t-shirt).

    I realize that all this suit talk is for getting a job at a big corporate place, but I only wanna work in the game industry

    A little offtopic, but I'm currently looking for a summer job (any job that is) and I've noticed that If there is one thing I really suck in, then it's looking for a job. I've made about 50 applications, made some calls and been in a couple of interviews, but I'm still looking.

    The worst case was when this woman that called me for a job interview started accusing me of all kinds of arrogant stuff that was in my application. And there was nothing really, It was even made of a form on their website. In the end I got a bit mad and ended the call by saying "oh I didn't remember slavery still excisted in finland". Then I just hung up.

    Did you follow up on any of the applications and ask them how you could improve your chances? (particularly the ones where you made it to the interview stage.)

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    Grin: what kind of job was that with the lady if i may ask? thats pretty ridicolous lol. but kudos for hanging up on her.. you wouldnt want to work for someone like that :S

    It's one of the biggest security companies in Finland, this particular case was at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, as a guard on a gate to the runways and some patrolling. I was a military police in my army service and I have pretty much experience on the same things that they were looking for, so I decided to give it a try.

    The main thing she started to accuse me of was, that I had wished that because it's a big company it would be easy to change shifts with my colleaques if necessary. I am competing on athletics pretty high on national level and I only wrote this because they requested at least one reason in why you are applying for this company.

    SO: First she started moralizing me about how you shouldn't try things like that behind the employers back and how it would be dangerous in case something happened and there was somebody at the gate who wasn't supposed to. Well, of course I told her that I meant handling this stuff through the employer, officially. Then she said "oh we don't let our workers decide when they come to work" In a pretty rude voice, where I still replied that it was of course OK by me and it was only a possibility I was hoping for. After this came the A-bomb of our 15 minute discussion. "If we decide to hire you we will pretty much decide where you are at a given moment from then on" I'm having some problems in translating this in a proper way, but the main idea of what she said was that they would pretty much own me. Which is when I told him what I wrote before.

    There was more before this, but this was the end of it. A friend of mine also applied for the job and got some pretty rude stuff too, but unlike me he staid cool. He didn't get the job either.

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