You've obviously never worked at a more conservative place. I worked at a place where tattoos must be always covered completely and beards have to be very well kept. Jeans were a hard no and they had just loosened their dress code so women could wear pants.

Even the New York Yankees have to shave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees_appearance_po...

Women couldn't wear pants!!??? Was this an airline? Or maybe the service industry??

It was an office.

I left there 12 years ago and the women could wear pants policy was new then. So it was around 2003-04 when they first started allowing women to wear pants. By coincidence (or maybe not) this is also the time when laws banning smoking in public places (bars, restaurants) first started to be passed.

It was a conservative office. Customers were other business, not the public.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women...

Pure tech no, but I bet they'd all roll down their sleeves if they're interviewing at a financial services company.

I know at least one executive --- as in, is on the website --- of an east coast Fortune 50 bank with sleeves and a bushy beard.

I've worked in sales before (in the investment bank), and was chewed out for the 3 months I tried to grow out a beard.

I have no trouble believing the rules for sales are not the same as the rules for IS/IT.

They're probably more stringent as it's directly customer facing.

I'm sure they exist but by far that's the exception and not the norm.