Despite my effort, I haven't found any information about the dress code at companies like CS and UBS for IT people (software engineers not dealing with customers). Is it suit for them as well? Anyone here with first hand experience?

My experience is that is varies per team - neither my husband or I deal with clients and my area is quite casual (can even wear jeans) whereas he wears a suit every day, Friday included.

It really depends on the team. Sometimes when it's really hot and I don't have meetings I go to work in shorts. This is not well-received by some, but then I'm a host programmer and I guess as such you have to look a bit like a freak.

If you have kind of a casual suit wear that at the beginning, look how your co-workers are dressed and simply ask your boss.

Suit in the winter, bikini and high-heels in the summer.

What about Zurich Kantonal Bank? Is there a dress code there for IT people?

The software engineers who do not meet customers wear pizza stains on their shirts as rank insignia... IT project managers typically wear epaulettes made out of chips.

I've worked at both CS and UBS in IT support. I have never had to wear a suit.
Most days it's jeans (non ripped variety) and shirt/T-shirt and non garish trainers.

Oh god, the host. With it's curiously bizarre interface, distinct lack of undo and function keys going from 1 to like 36. I suspect as the master of that beast, you could get away with anything since the entire bank basically runs on it (or it used to when I was there). Everything else can go down and be replaced with impromptu excel sheets, but not the host.

You for sure nailed the "looking a bit like a freak" part...

What's an "excel sheet"?

Host programming - where every day is flip-flops day*





*Except in winter where every day is socks and adidas flip flops day**




**We all love host really

Fortran:

COBOL:

For nearly 20 years that word has haunted me, and thanks to you I am once again getting flashbacks to the code to cut (as efficiently as possible) duplicate random shapes from a sheet of steel.

JK flip-flops of course.

I didn't know Fortran was ever used for machine rig control, more financial and scientific modelling.

For your case I'm pretty sure one of those dimensions should be limited to 3 though - at least in this universe.

It was a significent component of my "logistics and scheduling" module - Euler is to blame iirc

It actually started off as a "known" shape into a sheet and getting the optimal number of shapes.

Cuts could then be weighted - IE cutting the sheet costs money so at a certain point opitisation of the cuts over the wasted material becomes a factor.

And then finally we threw in altering the shape at runtime into one with random side lengths with a fixed total internal angle and where each angle is greater that a minimum value.

I didn't have a girlfriend at this point

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