Reply #2: It's a web development job, doing programming and web site production. [View All]

I've always worn a tie to job interviews. My understanding has always been that you always dress more formally during an interview than you expect to when you're actually on the job.

And, like I said, this ain't the good ol' days where anyone who knew PHP /MySQL and Java was assured of finding a high-paying job within a week. So I imagine things would be more formal now even among techies. I could be wrong, though.

Personally, I've never had a huge problem wearing a tie -- what I despise is having to wear a dress shirt and slacks. But in the last job I had where I had to wear "proper business attire," I figured out how to dress as casually as possible while staying within my company's formal dress code. I wore casual button-down shirts and cotton slacks from the Gap and Doc Marten shoes, and I was just fine.