Ok, so maybe both ”people who don’t think they can cut it on their technical skills [and so wear suits]” and socially oblivious people with suits are rare. And so the dominant signal would just be that the person is an outlier level of culturally out-of-touch.
(Though maybe suits start seeping in more at less prestigious and culturally iconic tech companies than google.)
Yay, empirical data!
Ok, so maybe both ”people who don’t think they can cut it on their technical skills [and so wear suits]” and socially oblivious people with suits are rare. And so the dominant signal would just be that the person is an outlier level of culturally out-of-touch.
(Though maybe suits start seeping in more at less prestigious and culturally iconic tech companies than google.)