I don&#x27;t think &quot;I&#x27;ve ... liaised with techies in enterprise from time to time&quot; marries up well with &quot;if you select down to consulting software developers&quot;. :)<p>The biggest headcount of a company I&#x27;ve worked in tech with is 60, most of whom were not in IT. The other tech companies are all 10-20 people, including part-timers. Only one company I worked for sold to Fortune 500 - ironically this one had the shabbiest dress of all.<p>Three of those companies had lawyers - they all dressed in suit-with-optional-tie. As did their visitors (visitors rarely optioned out of the tie) and the lawyers I&#x27;d talk to from other companies (admittedly a rare occurrence). Apart from the medical sales at the waterfall place and finance staff, I rarely see a suit jacket in the neat casual dress of other staff (IT or otherwise).<p>I realise this is all anecdata, but at the same time, the &#x27;neckbeard and t-shirt&#x27; idiom is a grossly incorrect stereotype.