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No dress code doesn't necessarily mean jeans and sandals with socks, people!
No dress code doesn't necessarily mean jeans and sandals with socks, people!
The geek in question: Jonathan Biderman
The job title: Program Manager, Infopath

My, you’re looking snappy today. What’s up? Do you have a job interview or something?
Thanks! But why does anyone need a reason to dress up, down or sideways? Since Microsoft doesn’t have a dress code I could just as readily choose to wear holey jeans and sandals as I could a tuxedo (…one of these days…)

Interviewing may be a typically assumed reason for dressing up at Microsoft, but I just wanted to start wearing the nice clothes that otherwise would be gathering dust in my closet. I decided that if I wear my numerous ties, I won’t actually have too many. That, and it certainly amuses my team.

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Jillian Venters
Jillian Venters
The geek in question: Jillian Venters aka “That Goth Girl.”

The job title: Technical Editor, Dev Div

What is it that you do here?

I edit help documentation for developers on the Dev Div team, and I’ve been an editor here at Microsoft as a contractor and then full time for about seven years now.

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