What’s the interview proper for a guy to wear when interviewing with consulting or investment firms now (via Zoom meeting)? Shirt without tie good enough or do I need a blazer? For context- just senior associate level

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Wear a suit and tie. For one, you’ll make a good impression, and also you’ll get yourself in the right headspace.

Never wear a tie without a jacket; it makes you look like you sell phones at the mall.

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Windsor knots are for cads. Gentlemen use the four-in-hand.

Full suit. Pretend it’s in person

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Dress suit on the top, birthday suit on the bottom.

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Really? People are wearing full suits for zoom interviews??! What levels are we talking about here?!? This seems so overkill - we are at home for Christ sake. Thinking a nice dress shirt will be perfectly fine. Heck, my interviews are dressed super casual. I think it would have been odd if I showed up with a full suit if they were dressed in just regular dress shirts

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I’m a female and I just wore a blouse or shell, no blazer. We’re in a pandemic and it’s summer and I have a window unit AC. I’d rather be “underedressed” than sweating bullets.

I did full suit, no tie, for my consulting interviews and it seemed appropriate

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Does jacket also apply for interviews with tech companies?

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I think you’re supposed to wear a t shirt for those. Preferably an 80s rock band

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Thank you, SM2! Finally the voice of reason.

I had a director showed up to my virtual interview at fannie mae with a white wrinkled undershirt. Then started texting as i was answering his very first question. I didn’t care as I was only interviewing to practice my skills for better firms but i wanted to call
him out on so bad.

PD1 - nailed it

I did suit no tie

As someone doing the interviewing- I am definitely not dressing up a lot, but I will have on a nice blouse or top. I do react more favorably to someone who takes it up a notch above me. So adding a jacket to a nice collared shirt would convey to me that you really care about this and that you actually would know how to dress in front of a client. Adding a tie would up that impression a bit, but reviewing my unconscious judgments, skipping the tie would not hurt you. And similar to the A1 comment, I had an interviewee actually apologize for not wearing a jacket recently, saying her A/C was not working well. I appreciated her saying that because it showed that she was aware of professional norms and would be able to dress appropriately for the clients. I did not really need the apology but the context probably helped my impression of her.

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