True. The pressure to look the part is everywhere. Looking the part for programmers is very different than for business people, but it&#x27;s still a thing. Someone in suit and tie does not look like a programmer in this Silicon Valley&#x2F;hacker culture-inspired world. But there is of course no reason why someone who likes to wear suit and tie can&#x27;t be an excellent programmer.<p>&quot;Looking the part&quot; can be a lot worse than just clothes, though. Because most programmers are young white men, HR people, even women, even when they care about hiring more women and minorities, still tend to hire people who look the part, meaning more young white men.<p>Maybe getting rid of all pressure and expectations to &quot;look the part&quot; would be necessary to finally get rid of these subtler, subconscious forms of sexism and discrimination.