I've interviewed and been interviewed countless times in the last decade and maybe once I've worn a full blown suit. I don't have a problem with them, but I don't want to look like an asshole when everyone else is running around in hoodies and jeans.
I usually just step it up a notch from whatever the regular office attire is there (either by asking my point of contact or having known the office). If it's full SV/hobo style I'll do a polo and nice jeans. Business casual and I'll wear a nicer shirt and some khakis. If I really have no clue I'll go slacks and a dress shirt.
In my own office (we're all remote) I still wear jeans and a polo most days. Usually just out of sheer laziness.
Haven't worn a suit for an interview in decades. Last interviews, I wore a jacket and tie. I knew I'd be overdressing and certainly didn't need to. But it generally doesn't hurt to signal that you're taking the process seriously.
I've interviewed plenty of folks in the years since and they do pretty much the same. I'm not going to dock people because they approach an interview formally.
The only suit I've ever bought was for a funeral - and I question the logic in that (a rant for another day). Ive had about a dozen interviews over the years from small to very well known companies and I've always just put on jeans and a t-shirt, sometimes a jumper if cold. The only time I did not get a job offer was for a large travel firm in deeside, north wales. They interviewer asked why I thought it was appropriate to turn up to the interview in a t-shirt, my answer was kind of long and opinionated, as the two numpties sat there suited and booted talking about how awesome their company was. Needless to say that was one job I didnt get an offer for, however given that the interviewers were asking questions they didn't understand (e.g. how strings are managed in the CLR) I didn't lose any sleep. I later found out from others it was a shit place to work anyway.
I once interviewed for a job with a "hands on" recruiter clueless about tech culture who insisted I suit up. I overdressed and was interviewed by a VP of engineering who wore ragged cutoff shorts.
For those too young or unlucky to pick up the reference, parent is referring to Car Talk, a radio show featuring Tom and Ray Magliozzi and their live solutions to automotive problems (also, existential life questions).
After running for decades, it was finally retired in 2012. The archives remain, in my opinion, some of the finest exercises in logical problem solving.
For better or worse the show is still airing "best of" episodes. I hear the end of it every Saturday morning when I switch to my local NPR station to hear the show that comes on after it.
Hope this doesn't ruin it for you, but I knew someone who had a problem presented on the show. She called in and reached an answering machine. Someone called her and qualified the problem. Then one of the brothers called and talked to her for a while. Then a few weeks later (there might have been some more calls, I don't know) both brothers called her and talked to her for a while. Her parts of that last call was edited into the radio show so it sounded like she had called and they just figured out the answer on the spot.
This can be a nice calculation based on the contour lines. I'm sure there are several local optimal solutions (Bay Area, San Diego) but I'd be interested in working on an elegant "doable" solution (e.g. no more than 200 miles of travel a week)
There were news about BMW and Apple meeting in Germany. There are also manufacturing companies without an actual brand like Magna Steyr building Minis for BMW.
My day is 10 hours, door to door.
I spend (realistically)
-- 3 hours commuting on the bus, doing emails, sheets, bugs, easy stuff
-- 2-3 hours in meetings
-- 2-3 hours of individual focussed work
-- 1-2 hours lunch, snacks, coffee, chatting, non work errands, personal email, shopping